Word: citadel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abstract idea, and it was too much. They couldn't pierce the moral universe they'd inherited because the real struggle was across the sea and the struggle with the ideas was condemned to be fought in the imaginations of individuals. Destruction of property, murder, tearing down the citadel of knowledge, terrorism--it was too heavy...
...wall of the main building at Rockefeller Center with a mural worthy of St. Sophia, and he commissioned the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, a celebrated Communist, to paint it. All went well until an unmistakable likeness of Lenin turned up in the mural. That was not acceptable in the citadel of capitalism in the 1930s. "As much as I dislike to do so," Nelson wrote Rivera, "I'm afraid we must ask you to substitute the face of some unknown man where Lenin's face now appears." When Rivera demurred, he was paid $21,000 and dismissed...
...grinned, gave a few handshakes, and ducked into a convertible with his friend Senator John Tunney. As he was riding off and the fasters were starting another song and Rodino had his committee well into the impeachment debate and Justice Burger was still at work in his hilltop citadel, a couple of joggers from the Marine barracks slogged through in shorts, cropped hair and G.I. boots. They stopped, looked at each other, grinned, wiped their brows...
...that they once booed Santa Claus when he turned up at a football game. Not only did the Flyers triumph, but the Phillies-the Phillies?-are leading the Eastern Division of the National League. Heady stuff, and emblematic of the fact that things are looking up in Philadelphia, that citadel of conservatism, the faded dowager of the East Coast, the yawn between New York City and Washington, the well-kicked butt of humor for comedians. Perhaps the cruelest cut of all came from W.C. Fields, a home-town boy, who was said to have proposed as his epitaph...
...head and begin to in vestigate its workings. Aristotle taught his pupils that the brain was merely a radiator or cooling system for the blood; he identified the heart as the organ of thought. Pliny the Elder was one of the first to identify the brain as "the citadel of sense perception." But nei ther he nor generations of scientists who followed him had the knowledge or techniques to explore it. Investigation was also stymied by philosophical obstacles. The brain was considered the seat of the soul; its nature and its workings were considered not only unfathomable but sacrosanct...