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Rejecting Dualism. Moreover, theologians concede that modern skepticism about eternity is fully justified. Says the University of San Francisco's Jesuit Philosopher Francis J. Marien: "An afterlife that is viewed as an opiate, a kind of workmen's compensation for an ugly and painful existence, is bound to be unattractive." Stanford University's Protestant Dean of the Chapel B. Davie Napier believes that God and man are cheapened by the idea that good behavior can buy "a good berth in the afterlife." As for hell, Napier shares the growing consensus that perdition cannot be permanent. To condemn...
...transportation (the mini-rail was so popular that some visitors wanted to spend all their time just riding on it, and officials are now considering imposing a time limit). Montreal's Metro was so jammed that guards had to close down one station because of the panicky crush; workmen hurriedly placed another 500 trash cans on Expo's grounds to hold the extra refuse...
...upper-terrace garden of the Museum of Modern Art, Levine and a cadre of workmen had constructed something called The Star Garden. At the corners of an open 40-ft.-square area were four separate oblong bubbles, each 7 ft. high, and 16 ft. on each side, made of a clear, fire-retardant plastic. The visitor was invited to walk between instead of around these bubbles. The process was supposed to induce "giddiness" and "weightlessness," which .in turn would make the viewer feel like a star in outer space...
...fortunes," which meant a loss of $27.5 million in 1966, the shareholders gave him a standing ovation. Perhaps symbolic of Douglas' lackluster recent days was a movie shown to the gathering about its DC-8 jets. It ground to a halt after a few seconds; while workmen found the reason and fixed it, a film about McDonnell ran without a hitch...
...done on wood panels in encaustic (a mixture of beeswax and pigment, usually applied with a cauterium, or hot spatula). Today, these paintings tell historians most of what is known about portrait technique 1,100 years before the Renaissance. Modeling and shading were expertly done. Except that the anonymous workmen of Faiyum customarily enlarged eyes (large pupils being considered at the time a sign of beauty), classical realism was faithful in portraying hair styles, jewelry, wrinkles and occasionally double chins...