Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American spirit is deeply divided about money. In one sense the faith in money is pure: it need not, as it does in so many older societies, apologize for its existence. Money is what it is-good in its own right, a sign of success, if perhaps no longer of divine grace. Yet this view is at war with an older tradition from which, even in a country that slights history, the imagination is never quite free: whether in the Bible or in fairy tales or in great works of fiction, money is held in contempt. The great callings...
...Nino Pasti, former NATO deputy supreme commander for nuclear affairs, who ran for the Senate as an independent on the Communist ticket. Former EEC Commissioner Altiero Spinelli and all six of the prominent Roman Catholic laymen (plus a Waldensian priest), who defied Pope Paul VI by running under the sign of the hammer and sickle, also won seats in Parliament. Narrowly defeated, however, was Communist-sponsored Independent Gillo Pontecorvo, the film director whose credits include The Battle of Algiers...
...mouth in the town squares or local taverns. Their knowledge of Europe is gathered, if at all, from engravings seen here or there in a bookseller's shop. Since there are no art academies or public exhibitions, they are little known in the cities; nor do they sign their names for posterity. Among the few who will be remembered is Winthrop Chandler, who lives in Woodstock, Connecticut, where he paints portraits, fireplace panels, even houses...
...great, and they certainly lack technical skill (the grace of lace seems to be beyond Chandler's competence). But they have a distinctive quality that has something to do with the fact that they have not seen the classics of the Renaissance, that their heritage comes from sign painters for taverns rather than salon painters for courts. They (and their sitters) want a likeness that conveys how ordinary Americans live, what manner of people they are -prosperous but plain, not elegant but confident. Such elements may not survive either in the new Republic...
...taste and when first drunk frequently occasion nausea, even to puking," but they are "best for skin afflictions and ulcers of all kinds, dropsies in the first stages, debility, weakness of eyes and several kinds of fits." The springs can be reached by a stagecoach that leaves from The Sign of the Lamb tavern in Boston every few days and makes the 70-mile trip for 5 dollars per person (baggage allowance: 20 pounds). Among the homes with rooms for rent: Child's, John Green's. Bristol Springs, Pennsylvania...