Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This brings us back to Harvard: Harvard's genius, I think, is a critical one. When her teachers and students are joined in their pursuit of the past--and the pursuit is endless as the past is inexhaustible--then Harvard is true to herself. Harvard flags when her teachers are tired and her students indifferent--when both have lost the one secret to critical success: I mean the nostalgia for a work of art, the hunger of one's literary birthright...
...what the bird means, but no creature better represents movement and freedom in space. In The Bird and Its Nest, the space is black with mystery, like infinity itself. The viewer's eye is caught up by the deceptively simple forms only to find itself staring into an endless beyond, as it once was made to clamber over Braque's intricate geometric planes. Whether he intended to or not. Braque has restored to the bird its ancient role as messenger of the spirit and bearer of the soul. "In art." says Braque, "there is a mystery present...
...endless line of degree candidates and dignitaries formed in Old Yard at Harvard's first fully Commencement since the war, C. Marshall chatted with Edward M. Morgan, then Royall Professor of Law. Morgan, who was to the Secretary of State in the procession to the steps of Memorial Church, mentioned that Marshall's apparent anxiety about his coming performance was unusual. "He assured me that he was expected to say something of importance," recalls Morgan, "Who expected it? He did not specify...
...week they were written all over his kindly face as he appeared, with a little girl, in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times. Said the ad written by Spock: "I am worried. Not so much about the effect of past tests but at the prospect of endless future ones. As the tests multiply, so will the damage to children-here and around the world." The ad, which cost $4,800 in the Times and is being reprinted in some 60 other papers, was sponsored by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE). Claiming...
Died. William Thomas Waggoner Jr., 57, speed-happy heir to a $300 million Southwestern cattle-and-oil empire, who spent more than $1,000,000 building his unlimited (2,000-plus h.p.) hydroplanes Maverick and Shanty, which, despite endless mishaps, blazed their way to top U.S. speedboat records; in Phoenix, Ariz...