Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAND OF THE GUN, headlined a London Sun editorial. "Violence has become the brutal hallmark of the most prosperous and most powerful nation on earth." Added Britain's Lord Harlech, a longtime friend of Kennedy: "Violence in the U.S. has become a world scandal." France, which came within an inch of violent collapse last month, found time in its recovery to fret over U.S. government: "America dreamed of a government of judges," said Paris' Le Monde, "but it suffers the law of violent people." Said Combat of Paris: "America is mad." The Times of India, where politically inspired...
...painstaking process; on a single painting he may use as many as ten different spray guns, apply dozens of different coats. When completed, the painting gives a viewer the sensation of gazing into a shimmering, bottomless sea. To dramatize the effect, Olitski often moors his canvas to earth with emphatic narrow bands of paint along the edges, which form a frame within a frame...
...henpecked by his secretary, a busybody of a woman named Myrtle who insisted on removing the centerfold picture of Playboy before allowing him to read the magazine. He was bored stiff bv the routine of his job, especially Sunday-morning "tune-in duty," when he monitored church services on earth He sometimes complained of the lonely burden he bore as ruler of the universe. "The buck, as Mr. Truman said, stops here, ' God wrote. "And I mean it really stops here. I would give my omniscience to be able to pass just one decision on to higher authority...
...calendar is divided into four element periods - Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Each pe riod is subdivided into three signs for a total of twelve...
...children baptized as soon as possible-several progressive theologians have seriously suggested that the ceremony be postponed until puberty, when a youth presumably is mature enough to accept or reject his faith. Perhaps the most formidable challenge to infant baptism was made recently by Switzerland's venerable Karl Earth, in Part 4 of Volume IV of his ever expanding masterwork, Church Dogmatics. In his latest book, Barth argues that there is no Biblical basis for infant baptism and that the ritual is not an act of God's grace but a human response to it-which means that...