Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer the same as religion, only its handmaiden. As the Libri Carolini put it in the late 8th century: "The sacrament is nourishment for the soul. Pictures are food only for the eyes." So the Carolingian renaissance opened the way for the later, greater Renaissance to depict the deeds of mortal man without fear...
...depict the far-out cover subject the editors called on an artist of far-ranging talent. Rumanian-born Saul Steinberg studied psychology at the University of Bucharest and architecture at the University of Milan, was a U.S. Navy officer in World War II, and has gained an international reputation for his vividly imaginative drawings. He is best known, perhaps, for his regular contributions to The New Yorker, has also been published in LIFE, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and Harper's Bazaar. In his deceptively simple linear technique, he gives life to Paul Klee's definition of drawing...
...states tried to depict themes representative of the Great Society. Texas trundled by proudly with a model of the LBJ Ranch, including a plastic Pedernales River, and a beagle with a tail that wagged. Minnesota's banner heralded the state as the SOURCE OF MAN POWER AND BRAINPOWER, while Hubert's old college band cut loose with The Minnesota Rouser. Education and recreation were the principal themes, Southern states, by and large, had the prettiest girls, and each state had some touch that was indubitably...
Though "sex is not synonymous with obscenity," he said, Fanny Hill makes it so. "Free rein," Judge Pashman added, "should not be given under the guise of constitutional guarantees to vilely depict perversions and sexual adventures as John Cleland saw fit 200 years ago. This is not the way to a better constitutional world; it is rather the path to decay and decline. The Constitution should not be the sword of the shameful profiteer of filth. It must be the shield to protect our sense of moral decency." Next testing station: the New Jersey Supreme Court, which will have...
...Your attempt to depict the actions of a small and fanatic group as expressive of Africa and Africans generally would, I suspect, have distressed Dr. Carlson himself. Similar tragedies have been enacted among many peoples and in many periods of history, and surely the point of Conrad's story is that the "heart of darkness" lurks...