Word: arced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackie has traced an esthetic arc of grief, ending with a stylish whirl into another world. Ethel's special triumph has been to maintain normalcy. She has simply carried on, as best she could, the kind of existence that Bobby would have pursued had he lived. Countless other widows have had to do as much, most of them with less comfort from friends, family and position. Yet to acknowledge this takes nothing away from the energetic gallantry with which Ethel has managed...
...General Electric's Schenectady plant. As Mosher flexed his arms, the monster climbed a stack of heavy timbers to pose like a circus elephant with one foreleg held in the air. A flick of Mosher's wrist swung a 6½-ft. metal leg in an arc and sent the timbers flying. Another flick and the foreleg playfully kicked sand at watching newsmen...
...seems condemned, by some inexplicable self-hatred, to a condition of permanent, sickening clumsiness. He knocks things over, breaks them, hurts himself. "In the kitchen he was carefully watched, and at the Whipples' round dining table, the chairs were always arranged so that Horace's arc of space was several degrees wider than the others'." With a few simple and subtle strokes, the author shows that Horace is not funny, as he seemed at first, or merely lovable, as he seemed next, but a boy who has stumbled to the very edge of sanity-and of life...
...helped cause. Yet it has become once again the dominant political emotion in Europe. No one has rekindled "la gloire" more assiduously than Charles de Gaulle. When Sampson interviewed Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Finance Minister mocked De Gaulle the diplomat as "a cross between Joan of Arc and a political cosmonaut." Yet, as Sampson notes, De Gaulle has "taken full advantage of the glamour of nationalism" as well as the allure of anti-Americanism. For his own lifetime, at least, he has blocked the dream of fellow Frenchman Jean Monnet for a United States of Europe...
...most astonishing things about the ceiling near at hand is the unfailing precision of its forms, both large and small. Michelangelo has caused each painted figure to exist in full, down to the subtlest wrinkle of a foot sole or the snug arc of a toenail. These refinements, needless to say, are quite invisible from down below. Why did the artist bother? In one of his sonnets, he exclaims, 'My soul can find no stair on which to climb to heaven, unless it be earth's loveliness...