Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Does this description fit some future vehicle that is still beyond man's technological grasp? It does not. Last week twelve shiny versions of this ideal car were lined up for public inspection at the first International Electric Vehicle Symposium in Phoenix, Ariz. Some of the models were familiar Volkswagens and Renaults, converted to run on battery power. Others were brand new and strange-looking. General Electric unveiled its squat, three-door "Delta," which looks like a stylized descendant of the Jeep. Not to be outdone, Westinghouse showed off a sleek "Lotus Europa" sports car. Ford had a streamlined...
Christ as the Man of Sorrows displays the same blend of mannered elegance and gory realism. But the triumph of Meister Francke's mature style is seen in the St. Thomas of Canterbury altar piece, painted after 1424 for a group of Hamburg merchants trading with England. The nine panels of this darkly glowing work depict episodes in the life of Thomas à Becket, together with scenes from the Passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, achieving a peak of dramatic intensity hitherto unrealized in North German painting. In The Martyrdom of St. Thomas, the kneeling archbishop...
...When cops enter the bar and beat the black jazz pianist bloody, the scene has a truncheon-like impact that was totally lacking in 1939, when such events seemed isolated from any social context with which the audience was familiar. In those days, Saroyan was known as the "crazy man" of the theater. Now it seems more as if he had the intuitive sanity of a seer...
FIRST DAY. As dawn streaked across the amber and gold foliage on a heroic fall day, Fred was already prowling the beach, studying the heart-shaped tracks. "They're here," he whispered. A rangy, rawboned man with the weathered look of a backwoods sage, he was wearing his favorite old camouflage jacket and a battered gray fedora. As he explored the island, half a dozen deer bolted from distant thickets, their upturned tails waving like white flags. Later, sipping black coffee out of a tin can, he smiled: "Looks like this is going to be too easy...
...says Quarterback James Street, "it's like getting a lecture from a professor." Royal also likes to bring his charges down to earth with such occasional homespun homilies as: "There ain't a hoss alive that can't be rode, and there ain't a man alive who can't be throw...