Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some critics, the auction houses' success is excessive. While no one blames them for dizzy prices-they are not their bidders' keepers-even dealers who are making wild profits as a result of the art boom evince a certain distaste for the whole process. London's Waddington points out that the auction world's Big Two, unlike most thriving corporations, do not plow back even part of their profits into research, grants for young artists or gifts to museums. Says he: "They are simply dealing in commodities." There is a gavel-size black cloud over...
...obligation to provide a lawyer, leaving most of the condemned on their own if they wish to seek post-conviction remedies in state and federal courts; most lack the money to hire their own attorneys. If the prisoner pursues the entire series of possible petitions, appeals and rehearings, the process can take anywhere from five to six years...
Lord Soames will do his best to prevent that gloomy scenario from unfolding. But in the end, he can do no more than set the electoral process in motion under the fairest possible conditions and hope for the best. Once Britain's short-lived raj is over, the people of an independent Zimbabwe will be in control of their own destiny. That in itself is no small accomplishment...
...said that "you do not need to be a victim of worry," was not entirely wrong. Thinkers more serious than Peale have construed a fearful attitude as a danger in itself. Jesus of Nazareth advised against fretting even about tomorrow. Psychologist William James saw life itself as a process of risk taking and thought it was debilitating to take risks too much to heart He urged people to will themselves to be confident of survival, to pretend confidence if necessary, allowing not even the "sweet' cautions of scientists to undermine them...
...meantime, independent thinkers are busy hatching schemes to beat the system. "A great learning process is going on," says Madison Draftsman Dan Greco, who describes himself as a "lay expert" in conservation. On Block Island, R.I., where the last sizable stands of trees were cut and sent up the chimney decades ago, some residents are experimenting with drying and burning peat. Mantle kerosene lamps are in fashion through the Northeast: not only is their light soft and pleasant, but the heat they radiate is equal to almost half that of a small electric space heater...