Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung put it down to geography. "Mountains tend to restrict the horizons of the mind," he once told TIME'S Robert Kroon. Others chalk it up to the insular effects of a longtime policy of political neutrality. Still others say it is simply a matter of overexposure to throngs of Fremdarbeiter (foreign workers) and businessmen pouring into the country in search of jobs and tax breaks...
...understood divorced from nature, and is it so very different from other manifestations of nature?" This, the key question of the romantic sensibility then as of ecology now, was Friedrich's obsession. He pursued it through a full gamut of subject -from beetling ice crags and the white chalk abysses of Rugen Island down to the plains, flooded in a benediction of yellow light, which were his equivalent for Paradise. "On the day he is painting air," Friedrich's wife said to a friend, "he may not be spoken...
...portent, the fallen oak may not be in the same league as the events that the Historian Livy claimed presaged disaster in ancient Rome: swamps turned the color of blood, chalk rained from the skies, a spear on a statue moved of its own accord, an ox talked and a child in the womb cried "Hurrah!" Still, several Michigan newspapers carried a photo of the splintered tree with the caption "Warning from Above...
...Portuguese colonialism was one of the best and most recent examples--Bok probably wasn't used to his job yet, so the statement was pretty. And if it wasn't as flashy a piece of moral leadership as Yale's Kingman Brewster might have come up with, why not chalk that up to Connecticut's crudity...
...paper. Even the worst clubs always have a couple of speedy quarter-milers, or at least a handful of top-flight jumpers. However, unless Princeton is holding a few runners in storage in that Jadwin Gym of theirs, it looks like Coach Edgar Stowell's Harvard thinclads will chalk up their first dual meet victory of the season today...