Word: highway
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...future. His papers have been ceaselessly devoted to giving it a future. He has used them to bring in industry and federal grants, to drive out gamblers and prostitutes. He campaigned successfully to transfer the state capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City; he urged a massive state highway program, and most of those roads lead...
...Highway regulations, the priest points out, derive from the Fifth Commandment, "Thou shall not kill," and for the careless driver he quotes St. Thomas Aquinas' stern dictum on carelessness: "He who allows certain events to happen which result in homicide by imprudence becomes guilty in a certain manner of premeditated homicide." The author even invokes the moral logic of Matthew 5: 28-"Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart"-as making traffic violations sinful even if no smashup results. For example, contends Renard, "the motorist who gets ready to pass...
Language Barrier. The merger brings together two groups that have held certain common beliefs ever since their beginnings in the 18th century. The Methodist movement was founded in England by John Wesley, a highway preacher who challenged the antireligious skepticism of the Enlightenment by stressing austere living and personal salvation. The precursors of the Evangelical United Brethren sprang from a similar revivalist movement in Germany, and were popularly called "German Methodists." Transplanted to colonial America by early European immigrants, the two movements remained on friendly terms, their preachers often collaborating in frontier revival meetings. Merger had been proposed twice before...
...four, Gene Mazel is doing the most different things in his pictures. He recreates mood and motion in the dark gray tones and blur of a photograph of a truck on the highway. His camera stops things that we probably wouldn't see: two boys, one sunning his face with a reflecter, and a hotel on the beach. And he uses the camera to stop simple, clearly defined portraits so we can study them--a tree in a field, a man reading the paper on his bed. Some of his work is so abstract, however, that he has to draw...
RICHARD Bartlett's A Question of Color (Boston University) proved a nicely-made and often-funny parody ofA Man And A woman. With Francis Lai's strings blaring on the soundtrack, the hero's Volvo roars down the highway, the camera treating it as if it were Ferrari's greatest master-piece; the lovers on a tiny piece of grimy beach are flanked by stagehands running around with large strips of colored paper; the bossa nova singing exhusband becomes a pudgy Hawaiian who falls down a flight of stairs to his death. All this is fine but somewhere from...