Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have done for centuries, will mount the scaffolding holding clay pots full of milk and melted butter. To the sound of flutes and drums, they will pour milk and butter over Gomateswara's head. Then, the anointing accomplished, the faithful will scatter back to their homes across the breadth of India, for another 15 years or so, until the next Mahamastakabhisheka...
...Breadth of Christianity. "When you compare Christianity with Confucianism, you are comparing two systems of personal morality. When you compare Christianity with Mahometanism, you are comparing two forms of fighting enthusiasm. When you compare Christianity with Buddhism, you are comparing two streams of mystical tendency. And, unconsciously, you have recognized [in so doing] that Christianity is something greater than the other three, because each of those others corresponds to one particular need, one particular mood of man, whereas Christianity corresponds to all three...
...Constitution, American Export Lines' gem of the ocean, made it the awkward way. On the big liner's first attempt, the tide was wrong, and the Constitution drifted within a hand's breadth of smashing into its pier. Dangling anchors dropped with a screech, and with engines in full astern the big ship backed off. On the second try, after a tense hour and 15 minutes, Captain Bernt Jacobsen finally inched the Connie into its slip...
...people who pound their fists and mutter aphorisms about smoke and fire ignore the breadth of Acheson's work. Between his becoming Undersecretary and now, the free world was forced to recognize one of the most unpalatable truths in recent times--the inescapable danger of modern Russia. As the Secretary of State, Acheson was the one primarily responsible for solving the vast problems that appeared during the transition from hope to reality. He had to determine the very premises of policy, as well as the policies themselves...
...most striking work of the evening was the Piano Sonata in G which received its first public performance by the composer, Paul Des Marais, instructor in music. The breadth of development in the opening movement is what impressed me first. Here is a modern composer who does not strip his form to its barest outlines. The piano is treated in almost orchestral terms, yielding in quick succession highly contrasting effects of sonority, dynamics, and range. The opening theme of the first movement is violent and harsh but it soon alternates with some warmly expressive passages that reminded me of Brahms...