Word: anteing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aging Uncle Man'Antônio in Nothingness and the Human Condition gives away all that he has accumulated during an eventful, prosperous life. "He no longer questioned anything - horizon or eternity - peak or zenith. And so he lived, carrying the burden of years, erect, serene, and doing a doing-nothing with all his might, in acceptance of the emptiness, the ever-repeated inconsequence, of his life...
...nearly 40 years, António de Oliveira Salazar has been the unusual dictator of an unfortunate land. An austere, almost monastic man who once taught economics, he has shunned publicity and raised few monuments to himself. Yet he built a tightly run, corporate state modeled closely on Mussolini's Italy, and his secret police have harshly repressed most discussion and all dissent. He has ruled longer than any other European political leader in this century. Early this month, after injuring his head in a fall from a deck chair, Salazar, 79, underwent surgery for removal of a blood...
...other things. he argues his view of the apostle Paul as "a man of genius" but "violently anti-Christian." He presents discussions of free will, marriage, sex, celibacy, miracles, baptism, immortality, and hell. And he winds up with his reasons for believing that Jesus was "a thorough-going ant-Clerical...
...wall of ten shimmering, plastic prisms designed by Charles Ross, next tripped up and over a glass-decked platform conceived by Stephen Antonakos, with giant candy-colored neon tubes flicking on and off in programmed patterns, lighting them from beneath and above. The experience told them exactly how an ant feels walking across a Coca-Cola sign. Then it was on to James Seawright's electronic cathedral, where their movements were recorded by an electronic brain that transmitted signals to each of twelve surrounding black Formica columns, causing them to emit soft, strange organlike notes, eerie wind effects...
...head Philistine, delivers a beautiful portrayal of George Sanders, bringing to oily life such DeMille epigrams as, "A man who could stop the heart of a lion could still the heart of a woman." Possibly the high point of his film career comes when, playing with an enormous ant farm, he explains, "Industrious little creatures. The Babylonians call them z'vuv; the Danites call them nemlach. We call them ants...