Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bonneville Salt Flats - and each time he has narrowly escaped death when a rear tire exploded and the car went out of control. Last week Arfons was at Bonneville to regain the record he lost last year when Craig Breedlove clocked 600 m.p.h. in his own jet car, Spirit of America. Art was confident that he had licked Green Monster's handling problems by adding a hydraulically operated "spoiler," or fin, designed to counteract the torque overload that had caused the blowouts...
Unlike Rembrandt, who often made his patrons subservient to his art, Hals rarely betrayed his sitters who wanted themselves painted as they fancied themselves. His Portrait of a Man with Crossed Arms (see opposite page) summarizes the cocksure spirit of his time...
Lutheran Greetings. The bishops also appeared to be looking ahead to more fruitful ecumenical encounters with other churches. One of the major acts of the session was the creation of a new general secretariat for ecumenical and interreligious affairs. As evidence that the spirit of unity is reciprocal, the brand-new Lutheran Council in the U.S. -a service agency that is supported by churches that represent 95% of the nation's Lutherans-sent "cordial greetings in the name of Our Saviour" to the Washington meeting...
...chisel and revived the ancient art of carving directly in stone and wood, producing massive, well-rounded figures that found their way into leading museums and even into some less exalted shrines, most notably Radio City Music Hall, which in 1932 stirred an artistic furor by rejecting his Spirit of the Dance as "too nude" for its lobby, finally reinstated it; of a heart attack; in Bath, Maine...
...Supreme Commander was talking about the liberation of Paris in late August 1944, and his remark quite properly categorizes that event as a military sideshow. In this Franco-American production, how, ever, the liberation is celebrated as a military epic, the greatest victory of the Gallic spirit since Roland held the pass at Roncesvalles...