Word: rowse
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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On the grounds of the old Imperial Palace in Peking, rows of plebeian cabbages crowded up to the foundations. In the city not a taxicab could be found because the drivers were out collecting manure. Canton schoolchildren scurried out of class to plant vegetable gardens in vacant lots. To a...
In 1955 Bishop Pike, then dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, tried the experiment during a Cape Cod vacation. He persuaded his summer congregation in Wellfleet, Mass, to build a church, designed by Finnish-born Olav Hammarstrom, which groups 350 people around an octagonal sanctuary...
THIGHS like the stems of banana trees, hands like opening lotus flowers-such, in Buddhist legend, is the formula for sculpting a statue of Buddha. See ART, Inspired Copyists. pHILOCTETES was an illustrious Greek warrior who received his in vincible weapons of war - bow and ar rows - from his dying...
His descendants took him at his word Prince Johann Adam bought a slew of Van Dycks and Rubenses, possibly including Rubens' voluptuous Venus with the golden hair (see color). Prince Josef Wenzel, one of the gayest generals in the army of the Empress Maria Theresa, owned so many paintings...
Flather rows on the varsity crew and was a member of the wrestling team. He has been active in the Hasty Pudding, serving as vice-President and business manager. He also been a member of the Glee Club for the past three years.