Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paduan fresco Betrayal of Christ, Piero della Francesca's looming Resurrection, the Louvre's Mona Lisa, El Greco's towering 16-by12-ft. Burial of Count Orgaz and Georges Seurat's 7-by-10-ft. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. To equal the experience, an art lover would have had to visit 26 museums, travel some 15,000. miles...
...infinite, should create something "that is outside himself, that is not himself." The only way to bridge the contradiction, she felt, was through Christ on the Cross. "It is not by eating the fruit of a certain tree, as Adam thought, that one becomes the equal of God, but by going the way of the Cross." It is perhaps not too far-fetched to suggest that Simone Weil's obsession with becoming "the equal of God" was, on its less attractive side, a form of spiritual social-climbing, and that her willful, lifelong pursuit of wretchedness...
...Persian messengers travel with a velocity which nothing human can equal. . . . Neither snow, nor rain, nor heart, nor darkness are permitted to obstruct their speed."--Herodotus, Book Seven...
Since there are now only two members of the Class of '59 on the news board, there is an excellent opportunity for any sophomores who want to try out in this competition. But since there is no limit on the number of those elected, capable freshmen have an equal chance of becoming editors as upperclassmen...
Conservatives hold that the goals of a free society can best be realized by an expanding economy which offers greater opportunity (rather than equal shares) for all. Liberals deride this view as the "trickle-down" theory of prosperity. Yet, as Economist Sumner Slichter pointed out last month, "the benefits that flow from vigorous enterprises are not a trickle. They are an enormous river, as shown by the 19% rise in personal incomes, the 21% rise in labor income and the 47% gain in industrial and plant equipment since...