Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hippopotamuses, quite as dumpy-dainty as Disney imagined them in his Fantasia ballet, glide and swoop and teeter-tiptoe underwater, looking like corpulent, flirtatious, middle-aged belles at a eurythmics seminar, except when they gap their incredible yaps, and let the fish swim in to pick their teeth...
...Eakins. "The true purpose of the painter," said Inness with perfect assurance, "is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which the scene has made upon him. A work of art is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion." Inness' Delaware Water Gap (see color) goes on awakening pleasurable emotions in visitors to the Montclair, N.J. Art Museum. Painted in 1859, it is the museum's most popular picture...
...itself from dependence on coal for power. By 1960, said Lloyd, British oil refineries (expanding at breakneck speed) will provide enough fuel oil to replace 25 million tons of coal a year. Thereafter, he added, he is counting on atomic power to drive out "the specter of the coal gap...
Edith was permitted to continue her intellectual work whenever she could find a gap in the strict Carmelite routine. She produced extensive spiritual and philosophical writings that were remarkable even though, in the Catholic view, they suffered from certain defects inherent in her background (she sometimes confused theology with philosophy, sensing with reasoning). The tension between the philosopher and the Carmelite was resolved "by continual growth in holiness rather than the transformation of the philosopher into a theologian...
...villagers of Ronchamp (pop. 1,900), in France's Vosges foothills, faced an old. familiar problem: how to rebuild the chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut atop a nearby hill called Haul Lieu. Hallowed since pagan days, Haut Lieu lies near the invasion route through the Belfort Gap, and in war it makes a prime military observation post. Over the centuries the chapel has been repeatedly destroyed; each time it has been faithfully rebuilt by loyal parishioners...