Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE is nothing better calculated to rile the Irish than to treat them as a land of begorra, shillelaghs and shamrocks. Yet the myth is part of the land, and so is the economic progress that at last has reversed the emigration rate. It will take more than a few factories to make of Ireland another Ruhr, but the changed landscape is a sight to see, as shown by the eight pages of color this week that accompany the cover story on Sean Lemass, who represents the new spirit in the ould...
...rule which prohibits a pitcher from going more than three innings has also caused the games to be a bit erratic. Some normal starters have trouble coming into a game that is already in progress, and the knowledge that they will only be in three innings causes some pitchers to throw too hard too fast, destroying their pace...
...Shoes of the Fisherman, by Morris West. Spiritual hope wrestles with faith in purely earthly progress in this powerful novel about a new Pope, an old Communist and the Catholic world...
...monasteries has conceded to progress by installing electricity. Otherwise, life on the mountain seems hardly to have changed in centuries. The work of Athos is prayer, and work it can be: in more than one monastery, the common recitation of the Divine Office takes between eight and ten hours daily. Some of the monks are regarded as living saints; yet among others sloth is not unknown, and the monastic love of God is often overshadowed by devotion to such pious relics-cherished by the monasteries as much as their beautifully illuminated manuscripts and rare icons-as the finger of John...
...full share of significant art, the centuries thereafter were stagnant ones. It was not until William Hogarth, a London hackwriter's son, born in 1697, that English art took on a personality of its own. For Hogarth, London was a stage, and when he painted and engraved the progress of his rakes and harlots like acts in a play, or when he opened the innards of Bedlam and Gin Lane, he caught the drama of England's lower depths as no other artist had. These works thrust upon English art a sense of flesh and blood, a spirit...