Word: masters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primitive man, nature was so harsh and powerful that he deeply respected and even worshiped it. He did the environment very little damage. But technological man, master of the atom and soon the moon, is so aware of his strength that he is unaware of his weakness-the fact that his pressure on nature may provoke revenge. Although sensational cries of impending doom have overstated the case, modern man has reached the stage where he must recognize that real dangers exist. Indeed, many scholars of the biosphere are now seriously concerned that human pollution may trigger some ecological disaster...
...Reason for Panic. As it happened, however, last week's closing was marked by little more than nostalgia for such items from armory history as the superbly tooled 1903 Springfield .30 calibre rifle of World War I and the semiautomatic M-1 with which Springfield Master Gunsmith John C. Garand revolutionized infantry firepower in World War II. There was no reason for panic; Springfield no sooner ceased to be Government property than it was transformed into an industrial park and school campus that should keep the city's economy flourishing. More significantly, while phased-out military facilities...
...story is slender: a Jewish doctor ministers illegally to a wounded fighter in the underground. But Writer-Director Zbyněk Brynych, a master of the Czech new wave, uses this somewhat shopworn situation as a structure on which to hang a number of unrelated scenes that are exceptionally powerful in both concept and execution...
...flowing Edwardian tie; a grand marshall with a cane greeted them at the finish line. In between, they raced Porsches on Soldiers Field Road, startled little girls in Newton Corner, and fought their way along infamous Route 16. "The Odyssey of our time," John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, is said to have remarked...
...remains a master of the meeting-hall peroration. At a time when personal political networks count for more than the traditional party organization, he has none to speak of. In an era when a fresh face and youthful persona are worth 1,000 platitudes and millions of votes, Humphrey, who will be 57 on May 27, is the old man of the competition, in danger of seeing his many and distinguished accomplishments of 23 years in elective office dissipated by overexposure. Even to some of his friends, he seems the eternal boy next door, fated to be jilted again...