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Suddenly, B-wen! Champion of the Wise Teachers, strode onto the stony front Porch of the Citadel, protected by a gleaming Suit of Armor. Blazing in large gold Letters from the great Shield slung across his shoulders was the Motto: "Self Interest is Best for the Common Interest in a Free Economy...

Author: By Algernon Mews, | Title: A Tale of Dissent | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

Sing, glorious Mews!, with what studied Ease B-wen swirled the Samnelson's three Times round his Head. Sing, Mews! How, when the Sling slung-out at the wildly braying Masses, the added Impetus lent by the powerful Mammon sped the Tome through the Air with such incredible Speed: seventy-five pages ripped from the Binding. Sing! How, as when Tornado Winds, ripping and howling, some fragile Straw some thick wood Plank drive through: So drove these seventy-five Pages, like the Edges of as many Blades: So were seventy-four Flarbs decapitated. Unfortunately, the seventy-fifth Page decapitated...

Author: By Algernon Mews, | Title: A Tale of Dissent | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

...People's Church." Posters using Black Panther rhetoric announced: "When One of Us Falls, 1,000 Will Take His Place" and "All Power to the People." A door bore an insigne of a hand clutching a rifle, based on the Lords' chosen symbol: Jesus with a rifle slung across his back. Inside, the militants were dispensing food and setting up classes in a "school of liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: House of Lords | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...Barcelona pavilion, a low-slung one-story jewel brilliantly combining such elegant materials as travertine, Tinian marble, gray glass, onyx and steel, was Mies' first major public building to demonstrate many of these concepts. It immediately established its designer as a master. The following year he replaced Walter Gropius as the director of the Dessau Bauhaus, only to close up the experimental workshop three years later in protest against Nazi restrictions. In 1938, an invitation to head the school of architecture at the Armour Institute (since renamed the Illinois Institute of Technology) led Mies to Chicago and the full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mies van der Rohe: Disciplinarian for a Confused Age | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...strong enough to withstand the rigors of mining. Using bolts of tent canvas, he devised what quickly came to be known around San Francisco as "those pants of Levi's." Over the years, denim replaced canvas, and Levi's acquired their distinctive indigo-blue color and low-slung design. Strauss, a bachelor, died in 1902, leaving the company to four nephews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Levi's Gold Rush | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

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