Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Reginald ("Rex") Brasher, 91, Brooklyn-born gambler, adventurer, painter-ornithologist whose 874 plates include every known type of North American bird, outnumbering by far the work of his predecessor, John James Audubon; in New Milford, Conn...
...effect in the desert was electrifying. On the Western Protectorate Federation's first anniversary this month, three more potentates joined up. The new Sultan of Lahej, picked to replace his predecessor in Cairo, cried: "Let us proceed farther with this glorious federation through which we can participate in achieving the great aim of Arab unity...
...pent-up postwar demand for new schools and new teachers generated a new public interest in public education-and forced newspapers to re-examine a neglected corner of the local scene. Inevitably, the hack writers began to disappear, and today's education reporter bears little resemblance to his predecessor. He knows his subject and often brings to it, as in the case of Ben Fine (who holds seven honorary and one earned doctorate degrees), actual experience in teaching. At an educators' conference several years ago, when one speaker tried to fob off some phony statistics on teacher-student...
...Good Light, by Karl Bjarnhof. Finding words for the things that are too terrible for words, this sightless author goes on with the fictionalized chronicle of his descent into blindness. A luminous sequel to its moving predecessor, The Stars Grow Pale...
...contrast to such savage moments, the exhibition as a whole reflected the Oriental ideal of calm delight, nowhere better shown than in the 32½-in.-high wooden sculpture of Hachiman. the Shinto god of war, who was incorporated into the peaceful Buddhist pantheon. Unlike his Shinto predecessor, the Buddhist Hachiman as carved by Koshun in 1328 was a peaceful and humble priest. "Even if I should have to drink molten copper," he once exclaimed. "I would not accept offerings from those whose hearts are tainted!" Koshun's image of him is clearly an offering from an untainted heart...