Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hebrew Bible is a "monument of logic born of experience," William F. Albright, noted archeologist and historian, asserted at the opening talk of the Thursday afternoon lecture series last week. Albright, W W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages, Emeritus, at Johns Hopkins University, criticized several theories comparing Greek and Hebrew thought in his attempt to indicate "The Place of the Old Testament in Logical Thinking...
Past & Future. Only two great monuments of the past compete with the streamlined, glass-walled modern city. The 14th century duomo, its pinnacles and spires topped by saints and angels, stands in the geographic center of the city; sightseers and lovers go by elevator to the roof to admire the view of the wide Lombard plain and the snowy crest of Mont Blanc. The grim battlements of Sforzesco Castle still brood over their grassy moat, and Leonardo da Vinci's faded master piece, The Last Supper, is slowly peeling on the wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle...
...hard to be indifferent to the information that Justice Felix Frankfurter, 77, expects to die without having been to the top of the Washington Monument, that he was in his B.V.D.s when President Roosevelt phoned the news of his impending appointment to the Supreme Court and that, when he came to the U.S. from Vienna as a boy of eleven, his English was so poor that he once told his parents, "This man Laundry must be a very rich man because he has so many stores...
...Balcony. French Playwright Jean Genet sets this monument of dramatic mockery in a brothel, almost proves his point that there are two main classes of people on earth: whores and their clients...
...Balcony. French Playwright Jean Genet sets this monument of dramatic mockery in a brothel, almost proves his point that there are two main classes of people on earth: whores and their clients...