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...very contemporary in appreciating forms which are fragmented, or artworks specialized in their aim (though he may not--with good reason--give the latter wholehearted support). But he is most interested in analyzing the few experiences he deals with--be they artworks or political powerplays--which contain a grain of original truth in their reflection of contemporary life-trials. Even when reminiscing on his own childhood sports career, Sheed is not concerned with the sweaty playing-field grit of the sports columnist, or the heroicizing rhetoric of Mailer's "King of the Hill." Instead, he examines the extent to which...
...Scythians were not always preoccupied with war. Besides tippling, they apparently liked tripping. Ancient bronze vessels found in Scythian graves in the Altai mountains, near China and Mongolia, still contain remnants of the nomads' favorite hemp seeds. They were also highly successful herdsmen and farmers who traded their grain to indulge their taste for expensive jewelry, such as a magnificent gold pectoral ornament recovered from the new-found grave in the Ukraine. Crafted by Greek goldsmiths, who probably lived among the Scythians along the Black Sea, the chestpiece contains no fewer than 44 exquisitely carved animals. Among them: such...
...75th birthday, in 1969, Germany's Grain Tycoon Alfred C. Toepfer created a "European Award for Statesmanship," to be presented to the statesman who did most for the cause of European unity. After years of search, the selection committee picked their first prizewinner: Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, "for his outstanding services to the entry of Britain to the European Community, to European unification, and the standing of Europe in the world...
...regrettably a natural, indispensable element of any strike," he said in the first denial ever of a Taft-Hartley cooling-off injunction. "However, it is the very essence of the only weapon labor can aim at management. Corn and soybeans are not airplane parts or missile components, and grain elevators are not steel mills or railroads." On the Government's petition to a court of appeals, Marovitz's ruling was upheld...
...back his convictions, he was confident about the existence of extraterrestrial life. "To consider the earth as the only populated world in infinite space," said the 4th century B.C. Epicurean Philosopher Metrodoros, "is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet only one grain will grow...