Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comet is now just visible without a telescope as a fuzzy glow in the morning sky before dawn, Each day for the next several weeks it will become a little brighter and love a little nearer...
Early last week the Pakistanis mounted a counteroffensive and drove the Indians back to the border. Some hungry, homeless inhabitants returned to Kasur, but now death rained down from the sky. On Sept. 14, Canberra bombers of the Indian Air Force blew up a two-block area with thousand-pound bombs and demolished a factory complex on the city's outskirts. Kasur was hit almost daily by Indian jets pumping 20-mm. shells into anything that moved. An estimated 1,200 dead lie buried in the ruins...
...Vatican Council's fourth session last week, more than 1,500 Roman Catholic prelates assembled for a march of penance from the Church of the Holy Cross to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, half a mile away. As the chill autumnal dusk darkened the Roman sky, a priest began to chant the ancient litany; from the throats of thousands of cardinals, bishops, priests and laymen came back the droning, prayerful response: "Pardon us, O Lord." At the rear of the procession, beneath a scarlet and gold baldacchino, walked Pope Paul VI dressed in red cope and carrying a crucifix...
...wilderness originally represented a hostile world to be tamed, tilled and harvested. What appealed first were "the sightes," hazardous gorges, natural rock arches, the torrents of the Niagara a scene naively and delightfully captured by the Quaker sign painter Edward Hicks. But with leisure there came a more open sky, sophisticated and view. "Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's' teachings." Poet William Cullen Bryant exhorted the painters...
Faust, as Goethe conceives him, is the image of Western man: man sundered, as Goethe was, by an intolerable antithesis of spirit and substance. Faust cries out: "Two beings ah! within my breast are fighting!" One clings to the earth, one "mightily thrusts upward to the sky." Salvation, for Goethe, lies in man's capacity to reconcile these opposites in creative activity. For creation, for a true birth, the feminine vessel is necessary as well as the masculine spark; but the problem of woman involves the problem of evil; and so Faust sells his soul to the Devil...