Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cloth of Time. In a 1958 preface to The Wrong Side and the Right Side-essays first published when he was a 23-year-old journalist-Camus remarked: "A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened...
...turn of mind that alienated him from his Algerian countrymen, whose basic attitude toward living left no room for abstract speculation. An old woman buys her own tomb and grows to love it. This teaches Camus the value of the present moment: "Let me cut this minute from the cloth of time. Others leave a flower between pages, enclosing in them a walk where love has touched them with its wing. I walk too, but am caressed by a god. Life is short, and it is sinful to waste one's time...
...nonmetallic materials aboard Apollo (grease, wire insulation, spacesuits, etc.) have been checked for flammability and replaced if they failed to meet NASA's new fireproofing standards. Flammable plastic-foam pads and nylon in the astronauts' spacesuits and seat belts have been replaced by Fiberglas "Beta cloth," which is heavier and more bulky but also more fire resistant...
After the arrest, black cloth was draped in front of the chapel entrance and students put on black armbands. A service was held with the Rev. Robert H. Hamill, dean of Marsh Chapel, officiating and praising the students for their reliance on nonviolence...
Even 250 years ago, it was no great shakes as a gift: 32 books and a few bolts of cloth from a governor of Britain's East India Co. to a struggling American college known as the Connecticut Collegiate School. Yet the colonists so deeply appreciated it that they changed the school's name to honor the donor. And now, having expanded over the years, the present university last week sent 150 alumni, professors and students led by President Kingman Brewster all the way to Wrexham, Wales, to unveil a plaque commemorating the gift made by Elihu Yale...