Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graham. Since then, the churches have entered a new phase of involvement and activism, of protests and politics. This latest era is not all action, as it may occasionally seem, or all emotion. In recent years the churches have evolved a body of ideas and positions notable for their wide range, their relative readiness to accept change and (on the whole) their growing liberalism...
...ambiguous relationship between art (the process of creation) and reality. Remember Blow-Up? The Black line is startling and forces this photograph to be viewed as a photograph, not as a scene through a window. The effect of the black line is re-enforced by the use of a wide-angle lens that distorts the twins and makes them ugly...
Current issues of Time and News week provide many more examples of pictures taken with a lens that is just wide enough to produce sufficient distortion for the orienting response. A telephoto lens creates distortion of another sort; distance is compressed rather than stretched out. The use of a long lens in Lisette Model's "Street Scene" results in the compression of an incredibly fat woman into a two-dimensional, half-ton, endomorph...
Harvard's Stampfli shell will be carrying a three-year undefeated string, a world-wide reputation, and possibly Harry Parker's best crew ever when it hits the Charles River for its first 1967 race at 5:10 p.m. today...
...which plays here today, is traditionally an inferior. That is not to say that the Harvard players can just breeze along to easy wins. The score usually ends up at a comfortable 7-2, but the individual matches are not so relaxed. For the last two years--despite the wide team margin--the majority of individual contests with Amherst have gone to three sets. And if a Crimson netman happens to have a lackluster afternoon, he loses more often than...