Word: masterfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion did not boggle at collaborating with an ambitious dictator-to-be to overthrow constituted authority. That venture gave him an intoxicating taste of power, but he was overthrown and wandered through years of exile, unsure whether he would ever get a second chance. Above all, he is a master politician who has learned about his country and its people by tramping dusty back-lands roads and sleeping in peasant huts. He organized peasants, industrial workers, students, businessmen and professional men into a leftist movement called Actión Democrática (A.D.), the country's major political party...
...total income of about $350,000 yearly. The secret is San Francisco's abundant talent. From two dozen nearby colleges and universities have come famed performers: Nobel Prizewinning Chemists Glenn T. Seaborg and Linus Pauling, Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller, Chemist Joel Hildebrand, Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa, Zen Master Alan Watts. Started on a shoestring six years ago (TIME, June 16, 1956), KQED has been able to turn out 19 talent-laden series, which were promptly snapped up by its hungry sister stations...
...seems an oriental counterpart to Van Gogh's; and like the European master, Affandi sometimes feels in blissful communion with nature while at other times his human passions boil up in sorrowing rage. His Javanese wife cares for his few worldly concerns and helps keep him on an even keel...
Impatient for Fame. Rudolph got his training at Harvard from one of the fathers of modern architecture, Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius, but he now casts a baleful eye on the master's own early work. "I doubt," says Rudolph, "that an ode ever got written to a flat-topped building in the sunset." Graduating with top honors from Harvard after a tour in the U.S. Navy (officer-in-charge, ship construction, Brooklyn Navy Yard), Rudolph was impatient for fame, admits he became a "structural exhibitionist." For instance, he put a fancy catenary roof on a 20-ft. Florida guesthouse...
...years, to earn his master of arts in the teaching of his specialty, the student must be certified by three groups: his major department in the university, the education department, the supervisors of his year of teaching. The result, says Dean Chase, is that "we will be putting ourselves out on a limb. We will not only be saying that this person has passed our tests, but that he or she will be a good teacher...