Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relics but was a replica of one that did. There were also small clay tablets that recalled the sites of the four Great Events in Buddha's life-Kapilavastu, where he was born; Bodh Gaya, where he attained enlightenment under the Bo tree; Sarnath, where he "set the Wheel of Doctrine spinning"; and Kusinagara, where he died. For a long time the Buddhists considered it unthinkable that anyone should reproduce the figure of Buddha himself...
Tree into Body. The earliest tablets showed only symbols of the sage: his footprint on a mountainside, the great Bo tree, or the wheel. Gradually, the footprints grew into feet, the tree into a body. The artists never used a human model. Instead, each artist studied existing statues or paintings, and when he had the image firmly in mind, he would produce a work of his own. Though the art of Thailand has in a sense been a perpetual act of copying, the finest artists could not help leaving their personal stamp...
...street. After an hour, word of Griggs's predicament reached the head of the Congo army, Colonel Joseph Mobutu, who sent an emissary in time to rescue Griggs-but not in time to save Griggs's car, which disappeared down the street with the plainclothesman at the wheel (at week's end, it was still missing). An hour later, firing did break out between the Congolese and the chargé's U.N. protectors...
...made by the Faculty Committee on Athletics Monday, when it reconsiders its "almost unanimous" decision of Nov. 7 to forbid the rugby club to take any spring training trips next April. If the committee scals last month's decision, the Rugby Club will in effect be left as a wheel without an axle...
...spoke for itself and needed no explanation. Now vision is verbalized, and the honest artist is out of fashion-and out of luck. I might suggest that $30,000 for a mess of refuse from the town dump is a high price to pay for jargon. Happily, the wheel will turn...