Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erich Heckel is old-80 this week. The vital and violent movement that he and two colleagues, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and the late Ernst Kirchner, started nearly six decades ago is now a part of both history and legend. There is proof, in a current show of Heckel's work in the stately main hall of the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, that passion and emotion once flamed as hotly in this old man as ever in any iconoclastic rebel. But he now lives quietly and serenely in an orchard-ringed farmhouse on Lake Constance, sometimes reminiscing about a youth that...
...third to Hilton. This method enables Hilton to extend his chain rapidly without putting himself deeply into debt. He gives his local managers autonomy to adjust to local conditions and to set rates (which vary from $14 a night in London for a single to $5.75 in Berlin). The proof of the system's success is that every one of the Hilton hotels abroad that has gone through its initial shakedown period is earning money...
...Philosopher William James recalled the worst crisis in his life-a terrible depression in his late 20s that nearly drove him to suicide. Eventually James recovered by deciding that he must have "the will to believe" in a higher good even though he had no proof of it. Though he remained an agnostic because he felt that no religion had a corner on the truth, he became passionately interested in the religious experience itself-on the ground that the experience of religious conversion was a vital one for the human being. James ransacked history and searched among his contemporaries...
After a long investigation, Major Grimwood decided that the best place for a "world herd" of Arab-proof oryxes was not in Kenya, but in Phoenix, where the dry, hot climate resembles that of Arabia, and where there is the spacious and hospitable Maytag Zoo. The Arizona Air National Guard, happy to boost the home state, flew a C-97 cargo plane to pick up the oryxes, which had been shipped to New Jersey. The four consisted of two males and two females, Edith from Aden, and Caroline, contributed by the London Zoo. Another female, still unnamed, will arrive...
What is horrifying about the Koestler novel is that the reader becomes convinced that in Rubashov's place he himself would become a complying victim. Anyone in the 20th century can become a victim; that needs no further proof. But a further evil is possible, Irish Writer Victor Price argues in this thoughtful first novel. What Price suggests is that anyone, bound up in the tangled complicities of corrupting power, may become an interrogator. Price's hero is Hugh Barbour, a classicist who escapes from his academic hide-hole into a job interrogating Greek prisoners for the British...