Word: ahd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actively religious but the securityof the idea of God held an appeal for her. If Godexisted at the very least she would repent and beforgiven; and the most she would be absolutelyabsolved from blame. The time she ahd spent inchurch ahd been restful and contemplative,however. She had enjoyed the way the light hadseemed to crash vigorously into the stained glasswindows only to be diffused into blues and yellowswhich filtered easily into the church. The lightsat in the people's hair as they lined up in thepews. It was the ritual that had driven her fromthe church, the Mass...
...Italy a work of art which had been created within the very bosom of the land? What act of piracy were we about to commit? Suddenly I was shaken. But not for very long. Collecting meant taking risks. Collecting meant possession. The pulpit up there is San Leonardo already ahd enough sculptures. A seventh would only cause administrative confusion. By the time I had reached the top of the stairs I had tucked my ridiculous anxieties into the recesses of my mind, never to surface again...
...just how long ago and far away that is, but network news was only fifteen minutes long then, people didn't know that cigarettes caused cancer, and Sonny Liston was not only alive but heavyweight champion of the world. There were no pocket calculators, and no Cuisinarts, and students ahd to wear ties to the dining halls at Harvard. It makes the Rolling Stones, along with Johnny Carson, Muhammad Ali, and Bruno Sammartino, our greatest eaters of artistic yogurt, the reigning Longevity-kings of our culture...