Word: layings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rhine on a ferry beneath the brooding Drachenfels. It proceeded over the exact route through Bonn that Adenauer had always taken on his way to the Bundestag. There, on the very spot where for 14 years as Chancellor Adenauer had presided over Cabinet meetings, the simple brown oak coffin lay in state for two days, while thousands of Germans filed past. Then, in the soaring, twin-spired Cathedral of Cologne, where he had knelt as the city's mayor, a pontifical Requiem Mass was to be sung by Josef Cardinal Frings. From Cologne, Adenauer's body...
...majority of the 76-member body of lay and clerical experts had indeed agreed that it was time for a change. And the liberals wisely based their argument, for the most part, not on the impersonal and narrow ground of population control, but on the contention that contraception can contribute to a happier married life. "If they are to observe and cultivate all the essential val ues of marriage," said the majority report, "married people need decent and human means for the regulation of conception. They should be able to expect the collaboration of all, especially from men of learning...
...verse. His dream of glory involved the dire meeting of a traveler, a brigand and a gendarme in the forest. After le petit Charles won the prize, Encounter was printed in 50 copies, and now one of them is enshrined in the French National Library. The youthful masterpiece lay buried there, but last week a columnist for Le Figaro learned of another rat-chewed copy, unearthed by a book collector, and brought it to the world's attention...
Five months later, Joseph Douglas and William Mosher, a couple of smalltime burglars, were shot while robbing a house on Long Island. As Douglas lay dying, he told a witness: "It's no use lying now. Mosher and I stole Charley Ross." Where was the boy? "Mosher knows," replied Douglas. "Ask him." But Mosher was dead. "Then God help his poor wife and family," said Douglas...
There is almost no text. McLuhan relies on aphorisms, unusual type faces, and impossible lay-outs to put his ideas across. Much like television, which the book strongly resembles in shape, it requires a great deal of participation. Passages printed upside down or inside-out force the reader to become involved. Many of the pictures at first seem incomprehensible. Only if the reader participates-to a degree he would never participate in a conventional book-is he likely to recognize, for example, the grotesque blow-up of a human foot which covers five full pages...