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...those images have a lot of power with these people," the padre said. "Every mass someone comes up to have their own image blessed. They're almost like idols." His face was expressionless, but his voice was weary...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

Haussmann had taste as well as authority. His successors often lack his sense of design. Most of the new buildings are as bland and expressionless as a child's wooden blocks. (The new sports stadium at Pare des Princes in Boulogne is an exception.) Commented L'Express: "There is no excuse for the wretchedness of French architecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Building a New Paris | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

Well, obviously, it's like a volcano, a silent volcano, so that it's eerie, the kind of thing that you see smiles on faces, or you see expressionless faces but it can turn like this, and it can turn when it is convinced that there is a resistance framework, that is to say it's a structure, responsible, consistent, and likely and capable of leading the fight against the colonels internally. We are trying to provide this, this is what our task is, to build this framework. This is what we're working very hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Papandreou: Fighting the Junta | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

...patriotism and suggested an odd alternative. He proposed that Martha immediately carry a big (5-ft. by 8-ft.) American flag on a three-mile march through the city of Cambridge. That chilly morning she dutifully carried her 15-lb. burden through the streets, head high, her face expressionless. The judge then continued the case for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Freedom March | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

Thanks to TV, no war in history has become so commonplace, so visually familiar as the Viet Nam War. To the living-room audience, the war is green (jungle, helicopters, uniforms) and red (blood). It is endless patrols by faceless men up numberless hills. The enemy are small, expressionless men crouching on the ground with their elbows tied behind their backs or shrunken heaps of black rags lying motionless on the ground. It would seem that there is nothing more to learn from another look at the war­nothing, that is, until a first-rate photographer puts together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Duncan's Viet Nam | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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