Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General & Artists. "A military leader, in conceiving his plans, undergoes an experience analogous to that of the creative artist. The latter does not cease to use intelligence. He draws upon it for examples, procedures, knowledge. But creation itself is possible for him only through the exercise of an instinctive faculty-inspiration...
...that the conditions at the top of the world, which confuse both magnetic and gyro compasses, would doom Nautilus to a game of "longitude roulette," in which the directionless ship might wander aimlessly around the Arctic Ocean without finding either of the two water exits-like a sort of latter-day Flying Dutchman. This fear was banished on the historic '58 voyage by the installation of a complex inertial navigator...
...actors, unsophisticated souls, are overwhelmed at the thought of the parts they must play. They feel a painful sense of unworthiness. But they have been elected to a task more terrible than they imagine. Suddenly it happens that these latter-day saints are called upon to play their roles in real life...
Sadly enough, many of Giotto's paintings have been lost or mutilated. Some have been plastered over; others "improved" by latter-day restorers. But last week a few were being rediscovered in Florence. An inner wall of the Badia church had been chipped away to reveal traces of a Giotto Annunciation mentioned by Vasari. At the Santa Croce, centuries of overpainting have been successfully peeled away from Giotto's still astonishingly fresh depictions of the lives of Saint Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist and John the Apostle. On another wall, plaster was painstakingly peeled away to reveal...
...Newark, N.J., will hold a Career Open House Dec. 29 and 30 at 10:30 a.m. for students interested in merchandising, sales promotion, and other topics relative to department store management. Filene's of Boston will hold a similar affair for seniors Tuesday, Dec. 30. Reservations for the latter must be made before next Wednesday at the store's Training Department...