Word: marvelously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear each other as the sound bounces off the "clouds" (in most halls, a violinist hears little beyond the string section, a trumpeter hardly anything except the brasses). So far, the novelty of being able to hear so clearly has convinced audiences, too, that Kresge is an acoustic marvel. But if, as seems likely, it becomes the acoustic model for other halls, the music of the future is sure to have a radically different sound...
...Harmony, in southern Utah, John D. Lee performed such prodigies of farming and building that within a few years he was patriarch of a mighty family numbering some 50 souls. Patriarch Isaac Morley exclaimed: "Why, Bro. Lee . . . You have Houses & Habitations, Flocks & Heards, wives & children in every direction. I Marvel when I see what the Lord has accomplishd through...
Tillich's faculty associates here, like everyone who knows him, are constantly amazed by the scope and energy of his mind. "It's a marvel that interests as diverse as his can be united in one mind without pulling it apart," one colleague has said. The point is, however, that for Tillich such interests as psychology, politics, art, and philosophy are not diverse. According to his theology they are all vital aspects of religion, and in studying them he is actually concentrating on just this one subject--the "ultimate concern" of his life...
...diversion and a symbol of hope amid the tyranny of life under Communism. To the extent that the spirit of Geneva has been harmed (by the Communists' hand), that hope has been struck down. The anti-Communist world prospers, economically and politically. West German prosperity is the marvel of Europe. Talk of European unity revives. The U.S., breaking production records, is in sight of balancing its federal budget. President Eisenhower is up and around. And even in the far-off Philippines, friends of all-out collaborators with the U.S. win a re sounding election victory...
Something Wrong? In the absence of sharp, organized opposition, the U.S. income tax remains a marvel of invulnerability, unique in the long and often bitter history of taxation. Never was so much collected from so many with so little protest...