Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accept this award in the spirit of a curator of some precious heirloom which he holds in trust for its true owner-all those to whom beauty is truth and truth, beauty-and in whose eyes the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold...
Weakest of the field events, as is customary at Harvard, is the pole vault, where John Silver has vaulted progressively better, but reached only 11 ft. against B.U. Close behind him is John Chills...
...Savio became the feature attraction. In October, when 1500 demonstrators sat down around a patrol car and prevented police from removing an arrested student, Savio took off his shoes and climbed atop the car to address his followers. Commenting on the spectacle, the San Francisco Chronicle called Savio "a silver-tongued orator...
...back of his hand, the monks arise. The great temple drum, hanging from its roughhewn log rack, summons the faithful to alms. Twisting a single saffron shift round their bodies, the monks move out into the quiet streets in single file, eyes to the ground, fingers clasped beneath their silver begging bowls. In Laos, the bonzes form a silent silhouette against the ornate temple roofs of the royal capital of Luangprabang. In Burma, they enter Rangoon framed against the great Shwe Dagon pagoda, its massive gilded spire shimmering in the early dawn. Though the robes may be grey in Formosa...
That is only the beginning of the snob-appeal gifts. Tiffany's fastest individual seller is a sterling-silver money clip that costs $3.50. Hammacher Schlemmer offers "Worldtemp" cuff links that register centigrade temperatures on one link and Fahrenheit on the other. Honeywell's $39.95 fishing thermometer comes with 60 ft. of line and a gauge showing which fish bite best at various water temperatures. For $99.50, Abercrombie & Fitch will gift-wrap an instrument that simultaneously tells temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, time of day and day of the week. And for the man who has every thing...