Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...checkoff on their term bill for PIRG or any other organization, that alone is sufficient cause for instituting it." Whereas I would be swayed by this argument if the issue were a 'positive checkoff', i.e., an option on the term bill whereby each student may elect to check a space indicating his support for PIRG and adding the due, I challenge a system whereby a so-inclined student must actively indicate his non-support of the organization...
...Dallas scenario versus the Sierra Club syndrome"-developers versus conservationists, with many conflicting interests between them. McPhee is no reflexive ecologist; he compares the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to "a thread laid across Staten Island." Neither is he sanguine about the many ways man can find to make a vast space less wondrous. Discussing the psychic need for a frontier, he writes: "People are mentioning outer space as, in this respect, all we have left. All we have left is Alaska...
...Clive Staples Lewis; but his conversion on that picnic excursion had some of the impact of St. Paul's. The ruddy-faced writer's works were to lure innumerable souls into the precincts of belief. Fourteen years after his death at 64, this Pascal of the Space Age is the only author in English whose Christian writings combine intellectual stature with bestseller status...
Besides his eleven overtly religious books, C.S. Lewis ("Jack" to his friends) insinuated Christian themes into a variety of other works. Those included a widely read space fantasy trilogy and seven immensely successful children's stories known as The Chronicles of Narnia. As an expert on medieval and Renaissance English at Oxford and Cambridge he also produced standard works on Spenser, Milton, and 16th century prose and poetry...
...Courbet's concreteness that strikes one first. He had an extraordinary power to realize sensations. No sky is airier, more washed with light, than the blue space of The Meeting. Apples in a dish acquire a red density, a solidity-a completeness of being-that no painted apple had before. As the English critic John Berger remarked, the force of gravity was to Courbet what the vibration of light was to Monet and the impressionists. He could put more death into a trout, hooked and flapping on the pebbles, than Raphael could inject into a whole Crucifixion. Courbet...