Word: personalization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Late Period statues are generally backed by a pillar that rises from the base to shoulder, neck or head level. The pillar serves no functional purpose; it does not support the statue but follows the contours of the figure as if it intruded into or grew out of the person represented. Its rear plane is flat and is frequently covered with columns of symbols. Yet some scholars suggest that the shaft is perhaps the most essential part of a Late Period statue, because it is the seat of the Ka, or vital force, thought to endow the subject with divine...
...oldest orchestra in Russia, it is also Russia's best. Under Conductor Eugene Mravinsky, 57, the orchestra plays a generous number of modern works by composers like Hindemith, Stravinsky, Britten, Copland. In London it played mostly Russian works-although it learned Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra in two rehearsals, as the inevitable Soviet good-will gesture...
...admittedly afraid of the dark. He has the gates of his estate bugged so that he can hear in his bedroom anyone who might be prowling about, and another electronic device tells him when people have entered his property. He once discouraged a visit from CBS's Person to Person show, which he describes as "kinda nosy." He prefers to keep the place to himself, his wife Georgia, his 13-year-old daughter Valentina, and three servants. Also on the premises: a stuffed gorilla, five dogs, a macaw, and a parrot that occupies a refrigerator during spells of warm...
...worry unnecessarily about "regularity." Says Dr. Hock: "Oldfashioned habits, half-truths and incorrect beliefs, and today's advertising have brainwashed the American public into accepting the idea that a daily bowel movement is a necessity for anyone. Your doctor knows nothing could be further from the truth." Each person's elimination needs vary, and regularity of bowel movements can be affected by such minor factors as diet changes, physical activity and emotional fluctuations-all of which are usually temporary, and will correct themselves without artificial assistance. Continued use of "elimination aids," warns Hock, can make the bowel lazy...
...Person to Person (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Senator Kennedy and family...