Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...galery and geometric and cubist styles of all kinds are grouped in another. Dissimilarities are exploited as well. For example in the juxtaposition of Nicholaes de Stael's violent, angular Reclining Blue Nude on a Red Background and Jean Fautrier's The Gentle Woman, which is cool, liquid, and soft as an oyster...
What followed was a combination of pluck, luck and medical skill. When passers-by mistook Piper's pleading moans for the babblings of a wino and ignored him, he pulled the crowbar out himself, made a compress out of his soft worker's hat and summoned the strength to walk 100 ft. to a service station. An hour passed before he reached Fort Worth's St. Joseph's Hospital. There, by luck, a team of abdominal surgeons had just scrubbed up for an operation. Calling in a chest surgeon from nearby All Saints Hospital, they went...
...beyond doubt the most revolutionary priests that the Cathollic Church in the U.S. has yet produced. And there is nothing very radical about their background. They grew up in Syracuse, the sons of a tough Irish railroad worker; their mother a gentle devout Catholic, was known as a soft touch for every passing hobo. Daniel, who entered the Jesuit order straight out of high school, is a poet and chaplain at Cornell University he favors turtleneck sweaters and admits to being a "hippie priest." Philip, an infantryman during World War II, was ordained in 1955 in the Josephite order, which...
...experience told them exactly how an ant feels walking across a Coca-Cola sign. Then it was on to James Seawright's electronic cathedral, where their movements were recorded by an electronic brain that transmitted signals to each of twelve surrounding black Formica columns, causing them to emit soft, strange organlike notes, eerie wind effects and gentle light patterns...
...personality and psychedelic wall posters (at $1 each). At a higher level, the company sold 105,000 youth air-fare identification cards for American Airlines-and kept $2 of the $3 price of each card for its effort. To help manufacturers boost sales of everyday products, N.S.M.C. "reps" place soft-sell posters on strategically located bulletin boards. In one such campaign, Alka-Seltzer offered to send a "cramming pillow-it allows you to cram effortlessly until the wee hours" to anybody who sent...