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...angelic form, like any other, responded to its environment. As if in answer to the formal strictness and intricate metaphysics of early medieval thought, with its insistence that the world is only a screen and a simile for divine existence, angels like the one who blows the last trump across the wall of the llth century Italian Basilica of St. Angelo in Formis are stern, unbending, and (literally) otherworldly. But the host of warrior angels that a North Italian artist, Guariento, painted in 1344-45, minus their wings and with a few adjustments of costume, could have stepped from some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Glory of the Lord Shone Round About Them | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...luck of the draw will be?? ?? important since Penn and Ha?? so evenly balanced in each div?? Crimson's trump card is capt ?? Terrell. Terrell has been inter ?? runner-up the past two years ?? mate Anil Nayar. Alone at the ?? Terrell is a heavy favorite to ?? individual crown...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Squash Team Must De?? Penn To Win Grand S?? | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

...result, canvassers from every Indian party have been venturing into the country's 565,000 small hamlets and villages in hopes of tapping the Untouchable vote. In West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the Communists have made considerable headway with promises of liberal land handouts. Indira has a trump card of her own: the exception to the image of the hopeless harijan, Food and Agriculture Minister Jag-jivan Ram, an old Gandhi and Untouchable leader who last December became Indira's party president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: India: The Politics of Prejudice | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

Supporting Kontos on the from line will be wings Carlos Williams and Ed Mills. Both men are new to the Terriers offensive. but Sigler is counting on their speed to penetvate the Crimson's defense. At midfield B.U. relies on center halfback. Bob Trump, named Most Valuable Player in the Greater Boston League last year...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Booters Seek Fourth Win Against Boston University | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

Actually, there is a method which makes this contract icy. All south has to do is to take the first trick with the ace, and take out trumps in two rounds. He then cashes his two top Diamonds and ruffs a third on the board. Declarer then gets back into his hand with a trump trick and leads a heart, knowing West holds the queen, from his lead. West must come up with the queen, and, not able to exit with a red card which would give his opponent a ruff and discard is forced to return a club, giving...

Author: By Stephen F. Kelley, | Title: Kelley on Bridge | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

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