Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least history," mused Depression-era Realist Thomas Hart Benton, 79. On hand to receive an honorary degree at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, Benton made a beeline for the old boardroom to inspect his wall-to-wall mural, Contemporary America. The crusty Missourian allowed that the 1930 painting reflected a nation entranced but not yet enslaved by technology. "Look at that train!" he said proudly, pointing out a black smoke-belching locomotive. "The machines of that day really had something for an artist. They weren't afraid to exhibit their power. Today's machines enclose...
Critics of the charismatic movement argue that it is fundamentally an unhealthy cult experience, which tends to separate the gifted illuminati from the majority of believers. California Psychologist Dr. Paul Morentz believes that it thrives among insecure personalities who are in desperate need of certitude. On the other hand, the Rev. Larry Christianson of Trinity Lutheran Church in San Pedro, Calif., contends that the gifts are "God's answer to the hyperintellectualism of our age" and the cold impersonality of formal worship. Surprisingly, even some Roman Catholic participants at the Dayton conference were cautiously optimistic about the prospect...
...Franklin Clark Fry, it was unthinkable that God's business should be carried out with less professional dispatch than man's. Gavel in hand, he presided over ecumenical gatherings or sessions of his Lutheran Church in America with the cool parliamentary aplomb of a Speaker of the House-a job for which many of his clerical admirers thought him well-suited. Yet he was also a man of deep faith who saw the unification of divided Christendom as a divine imperative for the twentieth century. When he died of cancer last week at the age of 67, seven...
...expensive nitrogen fertilization and often broke during milling. Many Asians, who prefer their rice sticky and manageable in the bowl, found IR8 too starchy and dry. Indonesians, in particular, complained because the stubby IR8 stalks had to be cut with a larger blade than could be concealed in the hand. That, they felt, offended their rice goddess...
...Tribune's advice, many whites stood in line at the market. And Knowland continued to encourage them. News stories appeared regularly on Page 1 giving store hours. Knowland also ran a full-page ad showing a gloved hand gripping a revolver surrounded by inky darkness. "Think it over carefully," said the caption, "because some time soon you may have to decide whether you want to run a business with a gun to your head or close up shop." The ad announced a campaign for "Citizens Pledged Against Coercion" and urged readers to sign up. With similar ads running daily...