Word: search
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United Arab Republic frontier guards and camel corps began a search...
...Roses has Shirley Booth as the listed star, but until the Booth part gets beefed up, the show belongs to Carol (Pajama Game) Haney. Latest of Playwright William Inge's lost characters, Haney's Lila Green is a high-spirited, Class-D showgirl who left home to search for the bright lights, but who has come back beaten, wanting "to crawl inside a man's shirt and stay there." Survivor of a disastrous marriage and a tour in a mental hospital, Lila moves in on Old Friend
...neophyte in search of a style after World War II, the place to be was San Francisco. The California School of Fine Arts, which in the 1930s had brought Diego Rivera to San Francisco, had suddenly burst into life again, this time around two fiery abstract painters, Russian-born Mark Rothko, who was scrubbing canvases with shimmering bands of color, and North Dakota-born Clyfford Still, whose outsize paintings suggested both Western canyons and bark peeled from a tree. Talented younger men (notably Sam Francis and Lawrence Calcagno) spread the Rothko-Still gospel in staccato dab-and-dash across...
Professor Hanfmann's great enthusiasm for a renewed search for the treasures of Sardis was echoed by A. Henry Detweiler, Cornell professor of Architecture, who promised to furnish a contingent from Ithaca, and by the Bollingen Foundation of New York. The financial burden (the first two expeditions cost $60,000, the forthcoming campaign ought to come closer to $50,000) was shared by Harvard and Cornell with the Foundation giving $20,000 each year for three years if the two colleges raised equal or greater sums...
...graduate school also seeks to provide the student with a "kit of tools," and "in matters relevant to his work, it seeks to teach him some of what is known, how to find more of what is known, and to be search in "what is not known" is not known." But advanced scholarly research in "what is not known is not the concern of these graduate students, who are future "men of affairs...