Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work of CRIMSON editors, and startling though the statistic is, I can't see that their contribution has helped much. Russell Roberts writes a flaccid chronicle of Harvard, which piles up innovation and anecdotes under each President's name in a singularly bloodless manner; our history, one would gather, is wholly lacking in continuities. Another introductory piece on Harvard's finances, this one boldly reprinted from the CRIMSON, likewise flows aimlessly along to nowhere...
...almost seemed as if Sunday worship services were lost in a crowded weekly calendar of dances, card parties, and other social affairs. Then, in 1948, a young engineer named Albert Wilson persuaded his new minister at Hancock, the Rev. Roy Pearson, to support a group of couples who would gather periodically for the study of Scripture and the mutual exploration of Christ's message for modern times...
...more spots than any other publication, filing some 700,000 words a week to the editors in New York. But it is a rare story today on which one man, on one spot, can report all that it is necessary to know. That's why we gather information from many spots and employ many minds to try to arrive at the truth. All of these individuals make a vital contribution to the result on their own individual terms...
...suggested Hoes, "and tell him the Monroe Doctrine is very much alive." Nyet, snorted Kolosovski, "a dead document." Immediately followed a Cossack chorus of "dead document, dead document," until Hoes added: "It got you out of Cuba." At that, the argument palled, and his Soviet guests went off to gather some documentation of their own-taking pictures of each other atop Fredericksburg's pre-Civil War slave block...
...Greeks. Until modern times, only a tiny proportion of humanity ever looked at art, and even they were confined to what was close at hand. Now museums more than ever search out the treasures of the world, hidden in private collections, ancient temples, obscure monasteries, half-forgotten castles. They gather the works of one man or one school from all over the world to be judged anew. They send their vast and learned exhibitions traveling across oceans and continents; they are the great conservators, but also the great propagators. Even commercial galleries, seeking prestige, increasingly put on theme shows...