Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consequence the exhibition of 80 paintings made over the past five years by peasant workers in Huhsien county, Shensi province, which just opened at the Brooklyn Museum and will travel to San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston throughout 1978, is not only interesting but instructive. These bright-colored, Volk-ish scenes of collective labor, with their clear and pretty patterns, are, in fact, like posters a prime form of political instruction in China. As the catalogue remarks, they exemplify "the abolition of the distinction between manual workers and brain workers." How complete this erasure has been the show makes...
...believes, are ideal investments for an absentee owner. "They are very highly regulated and restricted," says Pharaon, and can safely be left to the management of others. The National Bank of Georgia, he asserts, has intrinsic values, like a location in a prime growth area. Moreover, he sees bright days ahead once various federal investigations are concluded. "It is a turnaround situation that comes very quickly and very fast," says Pharaon. "In fact, we foresee in 1978 that the bank will be very handsomely in the black...
...fragmented by arguments over matters like the "inerrancy" of the Bible. But the movement is now richer and more powerful than it has been in half a century. Men like Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, Presbyterian son of H.L. Hunt, are prepared to help it. Hunt is head of Bill Bright's international executive committee, and considers the stupendous goal of raising $1 billion "absolutely realistic." Bright's overall chairman, Baptist Wallace Johnson (the "praying millionaire" of Holiday Inns), travels 20,000 miles a month lining up contributors...
...really sweating," says the father, sensing the kill. Lizie scowls. "How do you know it's a he?" But now the sweating is over,and the checkmated computer weeps a bright red tear: "I lose." "Right, it's a he," says Lizie...
...doctor thought of the English language as something celestial - swirling, nebulous, with a bright density of words at the center and others flying off toward the margins of space and time. He came at last to regard the Dictionary as "a great abyss that will never cry 'Enough!' " Out of that chaos he fashioned one of the monuments of English-speaking civilization...