Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was not a single odalisque or flowery still life in the place. Matisse had turned to higher, harder themes. Severe line drawings of a long-robed Saint, the Stations of the Cross, and the Virgin and Child now flowed from his hand...
...changes occur because of "contradictions " (jargon for conflicts, struggles). The changes are not just the defeat of one of the forces in contradiction, but the evolution of something new, something different from both (this is the "dialectic"). The something new is always a step upward, the evolution by violent cross-breeding of a higher type of society...
...children, Clingman agreed to stay for a year. He organized Saturday sports-soccer, football, baseball. Other boys began coming, sons of gardeners, or "river rats" who fish for a living. The children brought their parents, helped build the congregation up to its present 210, with a healthier cross section of rich and poor...
...Kingdom of Christ is to be found among the lowly and the despised in persecution, misery and the holy cross. Those who seek Christ anywhere else find...
...British Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. Both concluded that the German army's biggest handicap in the field was Adolf Hitler's personal direction of the war. Of special interest and excellent of their kind were A. D. Divine's Dunkirk, a brilliant recording of the cross-Channel rescue of Britain's beaten army in 1940, and Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France by Remy (Gilbert Renault), the most exciting story of espionage in World...