Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Line Guide. The reader rests one finger on the vibrating alphabet unit, while using his other hand to scan the line of print with a probe that picks up and transmits the image of each letter Should the probe wander off the printed line, the lack of vibrations on the pin unit tells the reader to readjust...
...social action in the U.S. "Christians have a stake in preserving historic truth," he acknowledged, "but since sin infects every man and institution, we need a holy discontent with the status quo. The Gospel calls for constant change. We cannot identify our Gospel with the past." On the other hand, warned Ford, the church should not be "the water boy of world revolution." Too many revolutions, he argued, "fail to grasp the heart of the problem, which is the problem of the human heart. They throw out one set of sinners and put in another...
Bill Graham is a solid, no-nonsense name for a dynamic businessman who in the past four years has made himself a millionaire, acquired a Mercedes, a 29-year-old wife, a baby boy, and offices in both San Francisco and Manhattan. Wolfgang Grajonca, on the other hand, seems a more appropriate title for a temperamental typhoon of promotional creativity, whose obscenity-flavored conversation often builds to a scream, whose business conferences are likely to explode into happenings, and whose office costume usually consists of dirty corduroys and a short-sleeved sweatshirt. That both Bill and Wolfgang inhabit the same...
...Edward's weakness is more than personality; it is politics. Disorder in the passions is mirrored by disorder in the state. Gaveston's name tolls like a bell through Edward's lines, but for Edward's enemies the favorite is merely an instrument to hand; his death is simply an incident in the long war between king and barons. In tantrum at court, in victorious fury of battle, then defeated and bound, Edward is stalked by his encircling nobles. This play is about the state, the nature of the medieval constitution, and the Renaissance fascination with...
...your enemies beaten and humiliated." Then he asked the King to appoint the Italian papal diplomat Mazarin his successor as First Minister. Louis, O'Connell believes, probably never liked Richelieu. Almost no one did. But the King fed the dying Cardinal two egg yolks with his own hand. A few hours after the Cardinal's death, Louis told Mazarin of his appointment...