Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prettified to the point of sentimentality, four Austrian Baroque sculptures depicting three saints and the Virgin, recall the tendency of that period and that country to sweeten religion. Yet the artist gave these less-than-profound figures and their billowing garb linear fluidity and much plastic interest. Characterized by an adept handling of color, especially pale reds and blue-greens, the Dutch painting portrays Christ on the way to Calvary with expressive, distorted figures...
...virgin splendor, the Ohio River awed the French explorer, La Salle, and all who came after him. The French called it La Belle Riviere, meaning, as Poet Carl Sandburg explained, "a woman easy to look at." Raft-riding settlers from the colonies called it "Ohio," after the Iroquois word for "thing of beauty." For a century and a half, while nursing the frontier's commerce and industry, the Ohio continued to be a 981-mile-long showcase of nature's charms. Rising at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers at Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh...
...Blame? The 46 million tons of bread grains delivered to the state in 1959, he acknowledged, was down 2,000,000 tons from the average achieved in the first four years after the opening up of his widely touted eastern virgin lands. It was down a full 20% from the 1958 crop. Drought, explained Khrushchev, had cut deliveries in many areas of European Russia. But more than drought was to blame for the performance in the Asian virgin-lands Republic of Kazakhstan, which only the year before had filled Khrushchev's heart with gratitude by producing more than...
...time, the world has vast amounts of empty space left-particularly in Australia, Africa and Latin America (where the rate of population growth is even higher than in Asia). Brazil's vast Amazon basin, amounting to nearly one-twentieth of the land surface of the earth, is still virgin soil. In Ethiopia alone, more than 180 million of the world's most fertile acres lie fallow. Even in crowded Asia, great tracts of potentially arable land, such as the Philippine island of Mindanao and the central highlands of South Viet Nam, remain uncultivated. Meanwhile, the U.S., surfeited with...
After a billion years, in the Gold hypothesis, the seeded planet may have evolved creatures intelligent enough to travel deeper into space, visiting fertile but virgin planets and seeding them in turn with adaptable microbes. In fact, this contamination by life is probably the normal beginning of life on any planet, including the earth. "Space travelers," says Gold, "may have visited the earth a billion years ago, and from their abandoned garbage forms of life have proliferated so that the microbes will soon have another agent (space-traveling humans) capable of spreading them farther afield...