Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recorded history, Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers," was the gateway between East and West; it was marched over, fought over, civilized and reduced to ashes by a dozen different peoples. The treasures contained in the Iraq Museum's five spacious, well-lit and air-conditioned buildings therefore trace an unequaled pageant of man's patient attempts to build and rebuild that ephemeral thing called civilization...
...most of his 59 years, Romney has been a salesman--now he's the politician with the salesman's style. In public and private, he talks with the same force and verbosity; his speech is quick and idiomatic, and, at the same time, earnest and humorless without a trace of wit or sarcasm. He smiles incessantly, but his laughs are usually reserved for uncomfortable moments at press conferences when reporters prick him with those touchy questions he has no intention of answering...
...impossible to trace all the large MRA contributions, but the organization is property rich. It was given a conference center in Caux, Switzerland, purchased in the 1940's for more than $840,000 and London, facilities in Berkeley Square worth $560,000. MRA also owns the Westminster Theatre in London, which cost $400,000 (Washington Post 4-9-61) and the $250,000 Dellwood estate in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., given to the movement in 1950 by Mrs. John Henry Hammond of the Vanderbilt and Sloane families (New York Times 1-5-50). There are also reports of numerous donations...
Quandary. Earth's four books trace the systematic progress of the anti-novelist. The author began conventionally enough with The Floating Opera and End of the Road, both written when he was 24. In the first, Lawyer Todd Andrews, deeply disturbed by his father's suicide, decides that nothing in life has much meaning; he makes up his mind to follow his father's example. But the decision sets its own quandary: "If nothing makes any final difference, that fact makes no final difference either, and there is no more reason to commit suicide, say, than...
...there is one thing that most typified Harry Luce, it was his deep and abiding interest in religion. Luce was a religious man in the best sense of that word, without a trace of pietism or holier-than-thouism. A Presbyterian, he served on the board of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and was active in a campaign to raise $50 million for the church. He also served as a director of the Union Theological Seminary, where he endowed a chair. But his interest in religion was not primarily institutional. Well versed in theology, he was comfortable with the works...