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...chosen to solve the problem was Gian Lorenzo Bernini, foremost sculptor of his day, who in 1655 began erecting his immense colonnades-inspired, so it was said, by the vision of a form that would appear as a mighty archangel, with outspread, welcoming arms coming out of the body of the church. To round out his grand plan, Bernini placed 140 statues of saints, each 12 ft. in height, around the rim. With its two fountains, each 45 ft. high, and its center fixed by the massive, 320-ton obelisk that Emperor Caligula had brought from Heliopolis. the finished square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: EUROPE'S PLAZAS | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...soon as the ball was securely lodged, the whole Carlisle team fanned out in a long line across the field and scampered toward the Harvard goal line with arms outspread and palms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carlisle Trick Duped Harvard | 11/24/1956 | See Source »

...larvae of Painted Ladies.) Biggest satisfaction of all: Hugh's five-year-old son is already mastering the fine points of the game -"The stealthy approach, net bag between finger and thumb, the gradual moving closer and closer to the butterfly sitting on a flower head with wings outspread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Butterfly Farmer | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...They got a tremendous reception, especially when word got around that the trucks had a juju that could forecast betrothal dates for the village girls. But C.P.P. did even better. They provided the Gold Coasters with a slogan ("Free-DOM"), a salute (a raised forearm with all five fingers outspread to denote the Five Freedoms), and a vision of Utopia. They also had a hero: Nkrumah, "rotting in jail." Outside Jamestown prison, where Nkrumah sat mending fish nets in Cell No. 9, demonstrators sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Sunrise on the Gold Coast | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Even registered Orthodox priests cannot hold classes in religion for children under 18. A nine-year-old boy showed Father George how children learned their catechism. "He held up his left hand, fingers outspread. T have five friends. I know my catechism from my comrade, who learned it from his grandmother. I have to teach it to my five friends . . . I give them an examination. Then if they pass, they become teachers. Each of them has to pass it on to five other friends. That's the way it spreads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catacomb Church | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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