Word: dwellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oddly enough, the film is most absorbing when Cousteau lets his camera or his commentary dwell on the extraordinary detail of his men's day-to-day existence. In the heavy air, laden with double the normal amount of oxygen, cuts and abrasions heal overnight. Beards almost stop growing. In the 86-ft. Deep Cabin, the male larynx, in reaction to helium, produces shrill chipmunk sounds. The men listen to music, keep house, play chess, pamper a parrot, and begin to feel strangely detached from events in the surface world. Jewel-bright sea creatures hover outside the glass windows...
...more provincial than Muncie, Indiana. Stop in one of 3000-plus neighborhood churches some Sunday, and feel the Mad. Ave. tempo melt away. New York is the town where a barber, when you ask for a shave, will tell you that you need a haircut; where a million people dwell within a 3-block radius--smaller than a midwestern village, yet containing all commodities (drugstore, bar, movie, etc.) necessary for life. Some get the jitters, or get lost, one block beyond that circumscribed universe. Others never leave...
...opposite, apparently, has happened. Teachers of Latin have not only learned how to teach Latin, but in many instances have actually mastered their subject. The improving standard of pedagogy has attracted students who actually master the subject themselves. The proponents of mandatory General Education would do well to dwell on past example. Nathan C. Shiverick...
Only a century ago, a British archaeologist wrote with assurance: "There is no temptation to dwell at length on the sculpture of Hindustan. It affords no assistance in tracing the history of art, and its debased quality deprives it of all interest as a phase of fine art." This pronouncement seemed to mean that 4,000 years of Indian sculpture was damnably hard to categorize, and that its frank eroticism dismayed Victorian minds. But today's scholars are drawn to it as surely as bees to an orchid. Indian sculpture in the period from...
...believe philanthropy generally is not attuned to the times," said John D. Rockefeller III, 58, at a banquet in Manhattan. "We are too ready to settle for the tried and proven. Rather than venture, we dwell on the problems of yesterday, neglectful of the new needs of today and the impatient future." Rockefeller urged that private philanthropists delegate more responsibility to Government for established needs in public health and welfare, devote private funds to speculative areas, such as population research and the arts...