Word: cube
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humorous Ivy Oration, Frederick M. Kimball '55 of St. Louis mused that "the dignity of man and the grandeur of his bathroom are intimately connected." The dignity was estimated as being equal "to the cube root of his toilet habits." He said that "the Renaissance began when Leonarde DaVinci reinvented the bathroom. For the first time in a thousand years, people began taking their clothes off, and art began again...
Dali originally entitled the work Corpus hipercubus (Hypercubic Body), explains that his painting is based on "the harmonious division of a specific golden rectangle" and on the studies of the cube by the 16th century Spanish Architect Juan de Herrera. Actually, the painting has all the impact of a good window display. A luminous figure of a beardless Christ, face averted, floats before a dull gold cross, dramatically spotlighted against a dark sky. Floating with fine structural irrelevancy before the figure are four of Dali's small, mystic cubes, "the most perfect of geometric bodies." Dali has painted...
...duties of the Moslem on a had (pilgrimage) is to walk seven times around the Kaaba, the great black cube in Mecca that is the center of Islam and the symbol of God's oneness. Pilgrim Asad "walked on and on, the minutes passed, all that had been small and bitter in my heart began to leave my heart. I became part of a circular stream-oh, was this the meaning of what we were doing: to become aware that one is part of a movement in an orbit? Was this, perhaps, all confusion...
...Plane in a Fog." This week 11,000 men and women jammed Harringay Arena for the first of Billy Graham's sessions. Some 3,000 more had to be turned away. Speaking from a sky-blue pulpit under a mammoth cube that hung from the middle of the roof with the same text on each of its four sides ("Jesus said: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life"), Evangelist Graham slowed down his usual machine-gun delivery for the benefit of British ears and moderated his usual platform prowl in deference to British dignity. But the message...
Smith gave a striking illustration of the atomic-thermonuclear revolution in firepower. If a one-inch cube were considered the equivalent of one ton of TNT. the average bomber load in World War II would stand four inches high; the Nagasaki-Hiroshima atomic bomb would be a 1,666-ft. column, more than three times the height of the Washington monument; the "conventional" atomic bomb of today would tower 4,998 ft. high; and the power of the thermonuclear superbomb, similarly expressed, would be represented by a column soaring 63 miles into...