Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studio. Brancusi refused. "Nothing grows well in the shadow of a big tree," he said, and spent the next two years working in virtual isolation. His last work in a traditional mode is the tender portrait head, Torment. Then, in 1907, he made the great break with the past that determined the whole future course of his career...
Representing 3,500 of their colleagues in eight European nations, the priests boldly declared that the church was a "prisoner of the past" and announced that the theme of their gathering was "Free the church to free the world." One way to free the church, they suggested, was to establish an elected papacy and episcopate with limited terms of office. The priests also urged lay participation in bishops' elections, and called for the elimination of papal envoys to other nations. They also urged an end to compulsory celibacy vows and the institution of a married priesthood...
...minutes and are closed by an underwriter hastily scribbling his initials on a broker's risk slip. This organization has effectively tapped private capital while avoiding the overhead of a ponderous corporation. Yet individual members, who accept unlimited liability for insurance they underwrite, can lose heavily. In the past two underwriting years, Lloyd's 6,000 members were each, on average, $22,800 out of pocket. Recently, Lloyd's revealed that its membership -and source of capital-was noticeably diminishing...
Harvard's unbeaten Yardling soccer team travels to M.I.T. this afternoon for a 3:30 p.m. match with the M.I.T. freshmen. Harvard has had little trouble with the Engineers in the past, and the Yardlings are coming off an 8-0 rout of a highly touted Boston University team...
...transformer for gas bubbles while keeping it sealed in a vacuum chamber for a month. They also added an extra circuit that automatically turns the telescope off when too much electric power is produced. The satellite can be turned back on again once the danger is past...