Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS weren't enough, Steinberg includes an appendix consisting of particularly cogent remarks by Rayburn, which he calls "Rayburnisms." It includes profundities like "The size of a man has nothing to do with his height" and "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build...
Furthermore, the segregation of sophomores by academic fields is as ludicrous as grouping them by height--neither are indications of compatibility. Division on the grounds of concentrations would lead to additional social insulation, as students would primarily come in contact with others who were already known to them through classes. A situation such as this would also be intellectually stifling, as exposure to ideas outside the students' academic fields of interest would be limited...
...religious renewals often do little more than provide selfish personal kicks and highs. The humbler churches agree with Walt Kelly's Pogo, who sounded like a biblical theologian when he said, "We have faults which we have hardly used yet." Nevertheless, Jews and Christians still see the height of prophetic faith in Micah's command to "do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." A hundred million American Christians still see God as "the Giver of all goodness," through his gift of grace in Jesus Christ. But Jesus also made an example...
...apparently locked boxcar just after the assassination. Photographs of these tramps, who were arrested, and then released on FBI orders, show that one of the tramps looks very much like Hunt, another like fellow Watergater Frank Sturgis, and the third like Oswald. Canfield and Weberman show convincingly through height and feature comparison that two of the tramps really are Hunt and Sturgis. Sturgis himself refuses to deny that he was in Dallas on November...
...Jean Helion. Having been one of the leading abstract artists in France between the wars, Helion returned to figuration in 1947. "I looked through my studio window," he recalls, "and I found that the outside world was more beautiful than my picture." He is now 71 and at the height of his powers. What pervades his paintings is a wry and original sense of human stance and gesture; under the cubist planes of the surface lies a marked appetite for the sensuality of commonplace things. "A cabbage is a magnificent rose, which is green, which costs one franc a kilo...