Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prop up prices. Remarked one middle-of-the-road delegate: "You just cannot believe how greedy these Iranians have become. They think they have invented the wheel." One of the cartel's greediest leaders, Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, touched off a mini-panic on Wall Street at week's end. An Arab magazine quoted him as threatening to halt Libyan oil exports for up to four years and appealing to other oil producers to do the same. Said he: "The more we store the oil in our ground, the better it will...
...their children have not been allowed to attend classes with Vietnamese. In the event of another border clash with the People's Republic, the Chinese have been told, they face "liquidation" or imprisonment. In what was formerly South Viet Nam, there are regular announcements by radio and wall poster of how the Chinese can apply to emigrate. Upon leaving the country, the southerners are required to declare that "I am happy to give my property to the Vietnamese government...
...about reaching out for life. The Washington careerist, "bright but not too bright" and full of muddled optimism, glimpses the fact that the convergence theory of history, as applied to the evolution of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., is bad news because it is turning the world into a wall-to-wall bureaucracy. "We are not completing anything," the Soviet says. "And we are not being used up in order for anything to be complete." The mechanics of policy, he adds, which should merely be the peripheral protection for life, has become an end in itself, "taking up the space...
...time he was 60, and despite his success and fame, Michelangelo had turned moody, irascible, feeling himself harassed by worry and his powers waning. Yet he was already launched into the six-year labor of creating the Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel. It was a tumultuous design, here embodied in a sketch dynamic with the swirl of falling bodies and tortured shapes of the agonized damned; his earlier calm, idealized nudes were transformed into the twisted forms expressive of his own brooding sense of sin and death...
...stuff of summer reading. But E.H. Gombrich is not the usual historian, and The Sense of Order is not a standard history. Subtitled "A study in the psychology of decorative art," this wittily illustrated volume ranges from a New Yorker cover of Saul Steinberg's to a wall inscription of Pompeii. Gombrich's central thesis concerns the need for order that resides in every human brain. Sometimes nature is accommodating: in hexagonal snowflakes, in the rhythmic chirping of crickets, in the natural laws of gravity and motion. Far more often, the eye sees chaos and the hand seeks...