Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until after Van Gogh committed suicide in 1890 did the world begin to find out what he was pursuing. In ten years of agony, bliss and hard labor, he had poured out some 900 drawings and 800 paintings, written hundreds of letters. Self-expression was all he cared about, and the self he expressed was so affectionate, violent and wide open to the world around him that the circle of his admirers has broadened with each generation...
...watch a sport event in South Carolina, jammed the stadium. The grimmest man present was big Rex Enright, Carolina's coach. His team had lost every game this season. If he lost on Big Thursday, he and everybody else in South Carolina knew that he'd better begin looking for another job. Before the end of the first quarter, Enright's team was behind, 13-0, and the Clemson stands were calling for their boys to pour...
Radcliffe will have a Yearbook again this year. Four hundred subscription sales piled up last week will give the staff sufficient backing to begin work, Susan Evans '50, editor-in-chief, announced yesterday. Jays Publishing Co., publishers of the yearbook, have guaranteed a minimum book of 96 pages of features and photographs for five dollars, she reported...
Soon things begin to go oadly for Johnny. Chiseling financiers drive Kessler out of the fabulously successful company, then begin to edge Johnny out. The man-eating Dulcie beds herself with every available partner in Hollywood, though somehow Johnny does not learn what is going on until he sees the evidence with his own eyes. But in the end, as the reader may confidently anticipate, Johnny is redeemed by Kessler's kindness, the incredible wealth of a generous Italian banker for whom Johnny worked in his youth, and Doris Kessler's chin-up plea that he remember...
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer comes to Harvard today to begin shooting scenes in the Yard for its crime drama, "Mystery Street...