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...been this ceaseless warding off of despair, symbolizing his survival through disasters to which others succumbed, which has given to Ungaretti his remarkable capacity to speak amidst these silences and to shatter the mute world of Europe in the twentieth century...
...match that saw the Harvard team lose four sudden-death play offs. The '67 encounter wasn't much better. The golf team fell, 4-3. In that defeat, the number seven man for Harvard lost his match when he failed to drop a 2-foot putt on the twentieth hole...
...began building a small dike system funded by local assessments and general taxes. By 1965, Crookston had 2.8 miles of new dikes, which cost nearly $63,000. The investment paid off immediately. The flood four years ago -the worst in a century-caused only $80,000 in damage, one-twentieth of the cost in 1950. Further improvements were made after 1965. Still, when the crisis came this spring, it was not the dikes but the people that made the difference...
...Magnon man hung a boar's tooth around his neck to ward off evil spirits. Twentieth century woman complements her Gernreich with bangles to draw attention to the flesh beneath. Medieval and Renaissance lords and ladies lived between the two extremes. As God-fearing Christians, they embellished their wardrobes with sumptuous crucifixes and jeweled pendants rich with Christian imagery. Such emblems indulged the wearer's vanity, but also made manifest his faith...
...foolishness and our enigma. It is, in historical terms, the history of an emergent people who freed, by and large, from 18th century shackles of thought and polity, wandered into a new continent and found some new spiritual and social constricts. The shackles that we have acquired, indeed, are twentieth century ones that we have bred quite apart from Europe, and to which, ironically, European philosophers have addressed themselves in the twentieth century...