Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abstract Lenses. The magnificent Gothic cathedrals, Kidder Smith points out, "were designed for a fearsomely omnipotent deity, a procession-laden liturgy and a priestly autocracy, which certainly does not answer the problems of today's ethos." New churches must touch the individual in a modern, more personal way; their stained glass can no longer be a luminous Bible full of a panoply of cartoon parables for the illiterate. Says Loire: "The glass should not be a distraction, but it should aid people to enter into themselves...
Good writing is rare enough. Storytelling is an even rarer skill. A genuinely comic vision is beyond price. The Ordways has all three. Seven years after his doom-laden first novel, Home from the Hill, William Humphrey has made a surprising switch from tragedy to mock epic. The result is the most delightful novel so far this winter...
Oddly enough, the film is most absorbing when Cousteau lets his camera or his commentary dwell on the extraordinary detail of his men's day-to-day existence. In the heavy air, laden with double the normal amount of oxygen, cuts and abrasions heal overnight. Beards almost stop growing. In the 86-ft. Deep Cabin, the male larynx, in reaction to helium, produces shrill chipmunk sounds. The men listen to music, keep house, play chess, pamper a parrot, and begin to feel strangely detached from events in the surface world. Jewel-bright sea creatures hover outside the glass windows...
...entrance. "This is wonderful, wonderful!" shouted Protest Leader Mario Savio, 21, a red-haired philosophy student, just before police took him away. Girls were carted off to the city jails; boys were hauled to the Santa Rita prison farm, where tough criminals in blue denims watched dumfounded as guitar-laden, bearded students were herded...
Harvard's hockey varsity came with-in 12 inches of pulling off the greatest upset of the year in Eastern hockey last night at Watson Rink, but finally lost a 1-0 sudden-death heartbreaker to power-laden Boston University...