Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more locked into their positions-the President insisting on a free market approach that would reduce the consumption of oil by significantly raising its cost, the Democrats favoring a system of mandatory allocation or possibly rationing. Even so, there was some subtle give during the week, a sign that no position was so doggedly held that it could not ultimately shift...
...Praying. Hotels that cater to the area's unfortunates are keeping their doors locked 24 hours a day. A sign at the Pickwick Hotel advises, NO VISITERS ALLOWED NO MORE. At the mission, Jack McCarty, 50, shuddered: "A lot of the guys are sticking around here even during the day, talking about him all the time." Says the mission chaplain, George Caywood: "Everybody is looking at everybody else. We're all praying the Lord will help the police. These men are our friends. It really grieves us to see them so frightened." But no one could offer them...
...clear that we had the numbers to help change things then, and we did. Most of us continued to communicate as a group until we returned to Washington last month. We had an identity. The mere fact that committee chairmen presented themselves before us was a sign that the seniority system, party loyalty notwithstanding, could no longer prevent accountability...
...Pope desired, whether to stem the tide of Protestantism or spread the gospel to other continents. The source of the present trouble is that while most Jesuit priests once took the fourth vow, today less than half are permitted to do so. The vow has evolved into a sign of special merit based largely on scholarship. Only those who take it hold leadership positions, including all seats at the current General Congregation...
...beside it, even Picasso's notable lebenslust seems rather cramped. In a sense, Rubens was to the 17th century in Europe (he died in 1640) what Picasso was to the first half of the 20th. But Rubens' influence then went on, which Picasso's shows no sign of doing, for another 200 years. First there were his ex-students, Anthony Van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens. Even more important were the French Rubénistes. "From the moment I received it, I have not had a moment's repose," Antoine Watteau wrote to his patron Julienne after...