Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Affluent Revolution. In the first day of the conference, the whole carefully planned agenda on the three principal issues (see below) went out the window. But the big fact of the summit meeting -at least at the start-was that the West was confronted not by a change in the issues but an apparent change in Khrushchev. The Khrushchev they had expected to meet was committed to "peaceful coexistence" at least in name. With his rejection of Stalinism, he had staked out his place in Communist history as the exponent of the affluent revolution, of a Soviet society no longer...
...students. Soon covered with chalk dust, he pounds and perches on the front seats (kept vacant to give him room). He brooks no interruption. If an office messenger invades the room. Keables cries: "I told you we should have locked the door!" If a daydreaming student stares out the window, Keables peers through his bifocals and thunders: "Get out!" Lanky Harold Raymond Keables, 60, is brimful of a passion to teach literature and composition to bright seniors. All he asks is undivided attention. And it pays to pay attention to Teacher Keables...
...William Green (1873-1952) was a Midwestern Baptist, a president of the A.F.L. His window, dedicated to agriculture and the sea, shows Ruth gleaning in the fields, Peter the fisherman, the harvest in Naboth's vineyard, and Joseph as a shepherd...
...Philip Murray (1886-1952) was a Roman Catholic born to a poor Scotch-Irish coal-mining family in Scotland, helped found the C.I.O. in 1935 and was president from 1940 until his death. His window is dedicated to industrial and social reform-Israelites in bondage; the prophet Amos warning his people; Onesimus, the runaway slave the Apostle Paul sent back to his master as a brother in Christ...
...that the sculptor of the altarpiece was even known. Many scholars doubted that it was originally intended for the out-of-the-way chapel at all. Yet the altarpiece did exactly fit the altar table, and at certain times the afternoon sun would stream through the western rose window to light up the face of the Virgin Mary. It was to Mary that the linden triptych was dedicated...