Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, Shinto was both a doctrine and a patriotic duty. Its symbol was the Emperor, who was not actually worshiped (though his ancestors were), but revered for his divine descent and the heavenly sanction of his rule. The Emperor's picture in government buildings was an object of veneration; a classic tradition tells of a schoolboy who, when his school caught fire, rolled up the picture, slashed open his belly, thrust it inside and struggled through the flames to die a hero's death outside. Even as late as 1927, some Japanese followed the old custom...
...eloquent passage, Sargent's friend Edmund Gosse gives one possible reason. Sargent, says Gosse, "thought that the artist ought to know nothing whatever about the nature of the object before him . . . but should concentrate all his powers on a representation of its appearance. The picture was to be a consistent vision, a reproduction of the area filled by the eye. Hence, in a very curious way, the aspect of a substance became much more real to him than the substance itself...
...that the British were pulling out, Egyptian propaganda and money, once welcomed by the Sudanese independents, were only an embarrassment. Last week, without asking the permission of either stepmother, the Sudan's Premier Azhari proclaimed the Sudan an independent country. Neither stepmother felt in a position to object, although the Sudan, torn by revolt, is obviously not ready to run itself...
...tests on 50 patients, the pneumatic arm enabled amputees to make up to a dozen different movements. They are able to eat and drink with normal utensils, grasp an object firmly or gently. Some can type, use keys, write with a pen. The new arm costs between $357 and $600, including the cost of a three-to four-week course in adjustment at the Heidelberg University Clinic. Chief disadvantage: depending on how often the limb is used, the supply of carbon dioxide has to be renewed every two days to two weeks...
...ultimately restore their proper musical qualities to comic basso roles, long lost in mere boom-and-rasp renditions. Tenor Cesare Valletti sang with the sweetness and eloquence of a low-pressure Caruso. Pretty Coloratura Peters was expertly coquettish. Using her voice almost as if it were a tangible object, she tossed a trill to port, another to starboard, a third dead amidships of the great opera house...