Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour when a man can first discern the shadows of the veins on the back of his hand, the monks arise. The great temple drum, hanging from its roughhewn log rack, summons the faithful to alms. Twisting a single saffron shift round their bodies, the monks move out into the quiet streets in single file, eyes to the ground, fingers clasped beneath their silver begging bowls. In Laos, the bonzes form a silent silhouette against the ornate temple roofs of the royal capital of Luangprabang. In Burma, they enter Rangoon framed against the great Shwe Dagon pagoda, its massive gilded...
...intentions tragically mistaken. The locale is Rome. The heroine is Adriana, an aristocratic Italian beauty. One day, she is struck down by that scourge of modern-day Italy, a Vespa. She is helped to her feet by an imposing policeman, Captain Falconieri, in whom any reasonably perceptive reader can discern the ingredients of a true lover: "Above all, in the powerful current of masculinity beamed towards her." The current, however, is short-circuited by calamities-knifings, renunciations, drownings and tears. Wiser and weepier at the novel's end, Adriana muses about how it all started with "those funny little...
Frozen Foods & Baby Sitters. Economists discern significant turns in the way the 92? goes out. Naturally, consumers still think first of food, clothing and shelter, but the manner in which they think of them has changed. As they grow more affluent, Americans are buying steadily bigger and better homes. They eat 117 Ibs. less food a year than their fathers, but are spending $232 a year more for it. This is not so much because prices have risen but because consumers nowadays show a weight-conscious preference for green vegetables over starchy potatoes and a gour met's delight...
...first a devoted Eisenhower follower, Goldwater soon began to feel that he could not discern much difference between "modern Republicanism" and the ideas of the Truman Democrats whom he had helped turn out of office. In 1955 he became chairman of the G.O.P. Senatorial Campaign Committee, a job unusual for a freshman Senator and one that carried him into Republican redoubts all over the country. Wherever he went, he said he sensed a desire among some Republicans for a more conservative course. He had read Locke and Burke, and he was deeply influenced by Friedrich A. Hayek, professor of social...
...movie script is being published this autumn, however, which ignores the close-shot, long-shot lingo of the camera's eye, implicitly mistrusts the camera's capacity to discern, and with a natural if unnecessary eloquence offers its own scene-setting visions of South Pacific backgrounds. Small wonder. Called The Beach of Falesá, the script was written by Dylan Thomas. In its stagy directions, "a stream foams out of the descending galleries and gardens of the tremendous, verdurous, impenetrable high interior of the island," and a "lantern and the moonlight make the bush all turning shadows that...