Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August night in 1943, a British bomb fell on the little refectory of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie. Next day Milanese climbed out of their shelters to behold what seemed almost a miracle: the two side walls of the refectory had collapsed, but the north and south walls still stood-like playing cards on edge. The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, remained intact under the sandbags protecting the north wall...
...right to oppose EDC, because every act which tends to make our democracy stronger only makes more improbable their dream of world domination . . . The Reds say EDC menaces peace. It is not true. They tried to convince the Italian people that the Atlantic pact would provoke war. But behold, five years have passed and . . . war is further away than ever. Why, even Russia has formally asked to join the Atlantic pact . . . We have learned a lot about the Communists. We shall not permit Parliament to suffer paralysis. The government will do its duty without boasting, but without weakness." Scelba...
...sincerity, a way he has of telling the audience "This is really me, not just another character in another play." Maybe it's a lot of things developed through a long career and rolled into one. Whatever it is, he has it, and its a pleasure to behold...
...finest items (lent by the Cleveland Museum of Art) is reproduced on the following page. Below the figure of Christ enthroned in a huge capital A is the opening of a hymn which begins, "Aspiciens alonge, ecce, video dei potentiam" (As I look from afar, behold, I see the power of God). The square music notation is a style still used for Gregorian chant...
...office each morning a little before 9 a.m. to beging work on the mail and conferences that were the bajor part of his day's work. If he were in an expansive mood he would show the visitor a little plaque that had been given him. "Behold the Turtle! He Maketh Progress Only When H is Head is Sticking Out" was the motto on the plaque...