Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University of Rome, Blanc hit upon the Torre site by accident. In the grass at the bottom of a hill 13 miles northwest of the Colosseum, he picked up a curious object that turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a prehistoric elephant. Professor Blanc borrowed a fleet of bulldozers and scraped until, 138 feet down, he exposed the remains of a primitive campsite strewn with hand axes and stone flakes. Many of the bones of the deer, elephants and horses that lay alongside had been cracked open by the hand-ax wielders, apparently in their search...
...Come Spring, Radcliffe moves out-doors. Those apple blossoms are lovely, the grass is great, but Radcliffe is not Coney Island. Either relaxing with with your date or studying out of doors, remember that other people might like to admire the view. And for your own sake, save amorous activities, etc., for a more secluded spot. You may want the world to know you're in love--but there must be a better way. Take it from there...
...today's Pundit Walter Lippmann may be heard announcing Freud as "among the greatest who have contributed to thought," not so long ago President Garfield was having his "head read" and Walt Whitman was proudly reciting a poet's phrenological endowments in the preface to Leaves of Grass. Karl Marx took phrenology seriously, as did Bismarck and Darwin...
...orphan at eight. In 1898 he founded Physical Culture magazine ("Weakness is a crime. Don't be a criminal''). By 1931 he admitted to a fortune of $30 million. Married four times and the father of nine, Faddist Macfadden's simpler tenets included "grass eating, having babies without doctors, standing on your head to make your hair grow." He favored one-legged squatting exercises, no alcohol, no steaks (lunch varied from grass tea and pea soup to nuts, beet juice and carrot strips). He pioneered in popularizing bed-boards, enriched flour, scanty swimsuits and sunbathing...
Turning from the financial to the psychological ledger, the book suggests one conclusion: the funeral ethic of 20th century America makes the most serious attempt in history to blink the ultimate fact. With its primped remains and imitation-grass-carpeted graves, it sets out to pull death's sting and all too often removes its significance, too. In "modern mortuary method," the funeral sermon is frequently nothing more than God's commercial, grooved in, as the authors explain, to "expedite the mourning process," and grief is classified as a "problem of bereavement." Instead of eternal life, the customer...