Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presepio designed by the young artist Bernardo Buontalenti for the son of Cosimo de Medici. One historian described it as "most singular and new, for not only did one see the heavens open and clouds descend while a quantity of angels flew about and came down to earth, but the innumerable figures all walked toward the holy manger, assuming attitudes which indeed seemed entirely natural...
...Owingses are concerned, their home suits them to a T. Says Owings: "This is a onetime house for the rest of the time we expect to be here on earth...
...below the eastbound presidential jet, the flat expanses of the Middle East gave way to the brown plains, the broad desert, the towering, snow-topped mountain ranges of the Indian subcontinent. And as the earth's face changed beneath the speeding plane, something of the old, old world changed imperceptibly too. In Pakistan, Afghanistan and India last week, the shapes and colors and sounds of older centuries mingled and fell around Dwight Eisenhower, as in a vast kaleidoscope, into strange patterns. Each pattern formed a new sensation, each sensation was etched with the faces of the multitudes reaching...
...here the universities of the world can be of tremendous help in gathering and sifting and harmonizing them into a universal law. A reliable framework of law grounded in the general principles recognized by civilized nations is of crucial importance in all plans for rapid economic development around the earth. Economic progress has always been accompanied by a reliable legal framework...
Archbishop Iakovos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America, lined up with the Roman Catholics. As he sees it, the argument in favor of birth control is based on the secular notion that society "must forever banish from the face of the earth hunger, misfortune, juvenile crime, social revolution and wars-since all these are a consequence of overpopulation." Said the archbishop: "This argument may be correct, but it is entirely negative." Childbirth, he added, is a "duty binding on all-not to avoid children, but to care for them in the nurture and admonition...