Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the most striking statues in the exhibition was a Nara-period lacquer of the demigod Karura, one of the legendary protectors of Shakamuni Buddha. His unknown craftsman visualized him as looking a good deal like an ancient warrior, with stern glance, hanging jowls and a suit of mail-but distinguished from ordinary mortals by a belligerently bird-like beak...
...Enemy is the story of a young man named Fabien whose pious mother does her best to shield him from life. Fabien knows nothing of "the strident clamor of desire . . . the storm that rages about the ship of humanity when God slumbers at the stern." Twice a year, however, a gay and worldly woman named Fanny comes to visit his mother, and her visits somehow suggest delights the boy can hardly specify. At 22, Fabien meets Fanny again. Fabien drops his theological studies and becomes her lover, and then, torn by self-anguish, drops her in turn and determines...
General Charles de Gaulle's remarkably tight hold on his own Rally of the French People was broken for the first time last week. For five years his deputies-now 118, the largest group in the French Assembly-had kept in line behind their stern leader. By staying out of coalition governments, which fell one after another, De Gaulle hoped to show that the constitution of the French parliament was unworkable and must be reformed. Judging by the despair Frenchmen felt at the collapse of their 13th postwar government, De Gaulle had almost made his case...
...Troubles. At Martin, Wonder Boy Bunker will have to perform wonders. Last year, though the company had a backlog of $400 million, it lost an estimated $22 million. Part of Martin's troubles stern from its helter-skelter expansion after Korea. Its work force mushroomed from 7,500 to 23,000; the average length of employment among its workers dropped from twelve years to six months. Turnover jumped from 12% to 70%, and absenteeism soared...
Meanwhile, the Yakutat rescued four men from the Fort Mercer's bow. Thirty miles away, the cutters Eastwind and Acushnet took men off the stern. By the time the storm subsided, 14 men from the broken tankers were lost. Of the four pieces of two ships only the Fort Mercer's stern remained afloat. It was taken into Narragansett Bay with 1,470,000 gallons of oil still in its tanks, the cargo pumped out, and then towed to Brooklyn...