Word: mold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actual details of the method took over two months to develop but the effect was generally as Saarinen had originally conceived it. Molds similar to that used for the construction of walls was erected and stone into it. Cement mortar was pumped into the mold, between pieces of stone, through attached After the cement had set, the were withdrawn and the walls were blasted to remove much of the mortar. The stone walls which were thus created by this process are significantly cheaper than masonry production but are quite handsome nonetheless...
...critical of the cultural disciplines, such as philosophy and anthropology, which attempt to give man an insight into life's meaning. Princeton's best-known systematic theologian, Presbyterian George Stuart Hendry, says Barth's Christocentric approach forces many church doctrines into an artificial mold. Wilhelm Pauck of Union Theological Seminary thinks Barth pays insufficient attention to the history of how Christian dogma developed...
...final step: "Molten bronze poured between the two clay surfaces melted the wax and replaced it, forming a hollow statue of bronze filled with irremovable clay." The wax, in any "lost wax" process, cast today as well as in ancient times, always has to be burned out of the mold before the bronze can be poured...
...Reader Spring's foundry, where Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz' statues are cast, burns out wax in the traditional way by placing the double-thick clay mold in a kiln fired to 1,200°F. Some of the wax escapes through a small hole in the cast, but most of it is absorbed by the porous clay...
...Great Man felt the urge. His book about his brother is not really a biography. But as a chronological series of personal memories, plus cullings from Hemingway's letters, it adds some warm flesh tones to the growing picture of the supersensitive he-man who did much to mold the living as well as the writing style...