Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Speaking on "Images in Modern Art" at the third lecture in the Thursday afternoon series, Messer defined images as mental pictures to which form has been given. He stated that as a person's comprehension of the world becomes more involved, his images of such things as man, woman, and emotion also become more complex...
Blood & Banians. Fate, for most khaki farmers, is another visit to the banian, or village moneylender. Of Jagjit's 30-bushel wheat crop, the banian already gets about a third. The banian's charge for a bushel of wheat: two bushels at harvest time, the equivalent of 100% interest. Yet Jagjit and others would rather take their chances with a local banian's mercy than ask for government credit. "The government drinks the blood of the farmers," said Jagjit fiercely. "It charges 12% interest, and wants the money back as soon as the term of the loan...
...last fortnight Colin Davis, 32, was named principal conductor of the Sadler's Wells Opera and invited by the ailing Sir Thomas Beecham, 81, to assist him at the Glyndebourne Festival. Said Beecham, majestically speaking of himself in the third person: "Sir Thomas hopes that un der these conditions nothing untoward will happen, and it gives him great pleasure to initiate a collaboration which, he trusts, will continue for many years." The appointment confirmed what Eng lish critics have been saying for more than a year: Davis is the most promising con ducting talent to appear in England since...
...seasoned, polished veteran and the chief U.S. Olympic hope in the shorter freestyle distances, who first thrashed to a new U.S. record of 1 min. 1.6 sec. in the 100-meter freestyle, returned to crack another in the 400-meter freestyle (4 min. 46.9 sec.), broke a third by swimming the 200-meter freestyle...
Born. To Marguerite Piazza, 34. onetime Metropolitan Opera nightingale turned supper-club thrush, and William James Condon, 49, a Tennessee snuff-company executive: their third child (ber fifth), second daughter; in Memphis...