Word: shiningly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that shoppers are exhausted by week's end and welcome such a break. The Denver Dry Goods Co. requires its buyers to remain on the sales floors during peak hours, both to keep salespeople alert and to help customers with shopping problems. Sears, Roebuck reminds its repairmen to shine their shoes, and Chicago's Polk Bros, requires its delivery men to remove shoes before walking over fancy wall-to-wall carpeting...
Beneath Silver Wattle. His real mettle will be tested, however, on long cross-country runs through the steep hills. And each weekend, rain, shine or snowstorm, hiking parties set out after class on Friday, live until Sunday afternoon in the bush, cooking johnnycakes and damper (a sconelike bread). They cover up to 100 miles of trail beneath silver wattle and broad-leaf peppermint trees, scramble across crumbly dacite rocks. They also tramp six miles to reach ski runs on Mount Stirling, where there are no tows or lifts...
...basic Hasidic doctrine. In Judaism, matter and spirit are inseparable. The flesh is not corrupt; it is good, but must be illuminated by the spirit. This doctrine Chagall displays beautifully. Marriage, singing, dancing, the common, ordinary concerns of the village, all contain divine sparks that, if allowed to shine through, bring man into harmony with his fellow man and with God. Chagall is not consciously spreading Hasidism. But he imbibed it to his very core when he was a boy in Vitebsk, and has been giving it forth ever since...
...years after Bonnard's death, his longtime housemaid said that one of her despairs was the master's way with the bouquets she brought in from the garden daily. Not until they were ready to throw out did he show interest in them; then, when that first shine was off and petals were falling, he began to paint them...
...Stroke of Luck. Faraday grew up in a London slum. His parents were kindly, God-fearing and bone poor-the boy at times had nothing to eat but bread and water. At 14, he was apprenticed to a bookbinder-bookseller who took a shine to the likely lad and let him browse through his library. At 20, Michael began to attend scientific lectures, and at 21 he suffered a fateful stroke of luck. He caught the eye of Sir Humphrey Davy, the greatest chemist in England, who hired him as an assistant and whisked him off to the Continent...