Word: portale
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Commencement oratory at big (12,000 students), burgeoning San Francisco State College was striking time-hollowed notes. "You are standing in the portal between academic life and nonacademic life," intoned President Glenn S. Dumke. Then California State Finance Director John E. Carr rose and explained in plain words just what President Dumke meant. Said Carr: "You have been generously subsidized by the citizens of California. Now you will be on the other side. I hope when your time comes to cough up taxes to pay for these things that you will do it not only willingly, but perhaps with...
...only truth, superficial appearance was reality. Christianity restored the art of transcendent hidden meanings. With impressive erudition, Malraux traces the sacerdotal role of cathedral, mosaic and icon and the evolution of Christian art from the austere, stylized Byzantine Pantocrators to the benign, handsome "Beau Dieu" in the central portal of Amiens Cathedral. Despite the growing intrusion of realistic detail, Giotto, as late as the 14th century, "did not copy the sky men see, but transmuted it into a sky charged with Christ's presence." But a century later Botticelli plunged into profane art with his sea-born Birth...
...Sharp Street West, in the heart of Hong Kong, stands a handsome new eight-story building, with its grilled entrance locked round the clock. Not even the postman with registered mail gets past the portal guards unquestioned. The 40 inmates who work, eat, sleep, exercise and even procreate inside cannot leave without passing the muster of the sentinels. The roof bristles with six radio antennas, attentively tuned to Peking. This is the Hong Kong bureau of Hsinhua, or New China News Agency-the key link in the communications chain that is the West's only steady source of news...
...northern Italy, emerging from the dark battleground sepulcher. General Charles de Gaulle fortnight ago was seen to sway a little and then steady himself against the stone portal. A photograph shot at that moment was the most commented-upon picture in the Parisian press last week. When so much hangs on one man, a whole nation anxiously watches him. At 68, Charles de Gaulle's eyesight is failing; without his thick-lensed glasses, he often fails to recognize people who shake his hand, and he suffers momentary blindness when he steps from shadow into sunlight. The old soldier maintains...
When the three entered the well-polished portal of the "21", they caused not a little consternation among the customers who were busy looking important and paying the hat-check attendant for the privilege. In the Hasty Pudding tradition, the trio was dressed in female garb. They compounded the confusion by emitting yelps and titters that struck almost every ear-drum...