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Bouts
Netherlandish painter. Born in Haarlem, he was active in Louvain, where he was influenced by R. van der Weyden. His best-known works are a triptych altarpiece (1464) for the church of St. Peter in Louvain, its panels representing the Last Supper and four Old Testament scenes, and two huge panels representing a scene of secular justice (1470-75) for the city hall, intended as examples of justice for the Louvain town council. His treatment of his figures ranges from strong emotion expressed through symbolic gesture to great severity and restraint.


Goths
Germanic people whose two branches, the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, harassed the Roman Empire for centuries. Legend holds that they originated in S Scandinavia, crossed to the S shore of the Baltic Sea, then migrated to the Black Sea in the 2nd cent. AD. They raided the Roman provinces in Asia Minor and the Balkan peninsula in the 3rd cent. and drove the Romans out of the province of Dacia during the reign of Aurelian. The adjective "Gothic" was applied disparagingly and inappropriately to medieval architecture by much later writers.


mouth
Orifice through which food and air enter the body. It opens to the outside at the lips and empties into the throat at the rear and is bounded by the lips, cheeks, hard and soft palates, and glottis. Its chief structures are the teeth, tongue, and palate. It is the site of chewing and speech formation. The mouth is lined by mucous membranes containing small glands that, along with the salivary glands, keep it moist and clear of food and other debris.


Reuther
U.S. labor leader. Born in Wheeling, W.V., he became an apprentice tool- and diemaker at 16. He traveled around the world in the 1930s, developing a lifelong distaste for communism after spending two years in a Soviet auto factory. He became a local union leader in Detroit and helped organize sit-down strikes--during which he suffered brutal physical attacks--that made the United Automobile Workers (UAW) a power in the auto industry. As president of the UAW from 1946 until his death, he was an effective negotiator of wages-and-hours gains. He became president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1952 and was an architect of the AFL-CIO merger in 1955. He was second in power to G. Meany at the AFL-CIO; however, their repeated clashes, partly stemming from Reuther's strong support for civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam War, resulted in Reuther's leading the UAW out of the AFL-CIO in 1968 and forming a short-lived federation with the Teamsters Union. He died in a plane crash.


Roethke
U.S. poet. Born in Saginaw, Mich., he was educated at the Univ. of Michigan and Harvard Univ. He later taught at several colleges and universities, notably the Univ. of Washington (1947-63). His verse, characterized by introspection and intense lyricism, is collected is such volumes as Open House (1941), The ...

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