Word: originalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given the rich golden tapestry of the Virgin's chair; for the rest, Fra Angelico's painting has been awakened by the dawning Renaissance. With rows of Brunelleschian columns, he achieves perspective, relegating symbolism to the background, where the distant figures of Adam and Eve state the origin of man's sin. In the foreground, is a rich, verdant carpet, carefully observed from nature and painted with the same joyful lyricism that St. Francis of Assisi had seen more than two centuries before in the world about...
...legalize all existing Negro common law marriages as they arose. (See G. T. Stephenson, Race Distinctions in American Law (1910). For those who have not had the opportunity to study American Negro History (and we understand that no such course is taught at Harvard), the following analysis of the origin of the Negro family may prove useful: "The uniqueness of the Negro family is a product of slavery. Most slave owners either did not care about the marital state of their slaves or were interested in seeing to it that they did not form strong marital bonds. The slave owners...
...legalize all existing Negro common law marriages as they arose. (See G. T. Stephenson, Race Distinctions in American Law (1910). For those who have not had the opportunity to study American Negro History (and we understand that no such course is taught at Harvard), the following analysis of the origin of the Negro family may prove useful: "The uniqueness of the Negro family is a product of slavery. Most slave owners either did not care about the marital state of their slaves or were interested in seeing to it that they did not form strong marital bonds. The slave owners...
...Tender Mouth. Reporters began firing questions. Ike said he thought Tony was a gift from Packard "Dan" Hendrickson, brother of New Jersey's former Senator Robert C. Hendrickson. But the cart's origin stumped him. Observed David, "I think it came from Texas." (It came from an anonymous friend of Ike's in New York...
Physicians agree that about half their patients' symptoms are of emotional rather than physical origin, but how are they to tell which is which? The Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Leonard L. Lovshin has drawn up a list of signs that may point to illness of psychosomatic origin. Samples: ¶ Exaggeration-e.g., the patient whose headache is "terrible, all over my head," and who has had it "all my life." ¶ Prepared lists of ailments. One patient gave Dr. Lovshin an 88-page case history...