Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a visit to the University of Chicago in 1934, Gertrude Stein landed in a steamy after-dinner debate with Philosopher Mortimer Adler about the merits of teaching literature in translation. Stein was firmly against it, and Adler defended the proposition fiercely. Suddenly she rose from her chair, marched over to Adler, and rapped him on the head. Said Stein: "I can see that you are the kind of young man who is accustomed to winning arguments...
...industry, is widely-known for his existentialist treatment of his subjects, and Aguirre is no different. Herzog's view of the Spaniards' abuse of the Indians they found in Latin America is offered through juxtaposition of images--four chained Indians struggle under the burden of a gaily-decorated sedan chair while its occupant looks on impassively; the monk impassively kills two Indians who fail to understand his efforts to proseletize. But the filmmaker's views are rarely more articulated than this, as if he accepts the conquistadors' brutality because that is the way it was. A great deal is left...
Carter's suit coat is draped over the arm of the couch, the label up: "Hart Schaffner & Marx, A. Cohen & Sons, Americus, Ga." The walls ripple with impressionism. Behind his chair is Childe Hassam's Flag Day, and to his right another Hassam, Old House at Easthampton. Near the door, Niagara Falls plunges silently, a swirl of delicate blues and pinks in an oil by John Twachtman. Fronting the desk is a huge painting of Rosalynn and Amy from the days in the Georgia statehouse, simple, almost ethereal...
...room is modern. A Lanier pocket secretary is at the ready to help Carter sort out his days. The room is old. A replica of a flintlock made for Carter, which he has actually fired, hangs behind his chair. Miss Lillian's photograph is near by, but not as close as a model that shows all of our nuclear missiles. A massive ship's clock of brass thunks out the hours and minutes, but there is also a digital timepiece that silently flashes the fleeting seconds...
Neumann's advocates persisted, and they finally got a hearing with Pope Benedict XV and a board of Cardinals in 1921. Just a few hours before that meeting, the main opponent of Neumann's canonization collapsed and died in a barber's chair. Benedict subsequently designated Neumann as Venerable (worthy of veneration and a proper recipient of private prayers)-the beginning of the long process to sainthood. In doing so the Pope set a precedent for the future judgment of possible saints by declaring: "Even the most simple works, performed with constant perfection in the midst...