Word: forms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bottle smeller for a soft-drink company, i.e., he sniffed empty bottles to detect kerosene, etc., to discover which bottles needed special washing. Later he was the gigolo of a wealthy middle-aged woman who "woke my understanding of the possible wonder and diversity of the female form." One night, tired of his work, Errol skipped out with all her jewels...
...also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations." In Christian tradition, this solemn and mysterious scene foreshadows the eventual triumph of Christianity, symbolized by Ephraim, so Rembrandt makes the boy's hands form a cross...
Kricke's present passion is for water forms. He will collaborate with Architect Walter Gropius on fountain designs for the University of Baghdad. "A fountain," says Kricke, "is often nothing but a Neptune ringed by spitting fish. The real thing should not be a mere mass from which water spurts. It is water, the passive element, endowed with activity. It is water, the silent element, endowed with a voice. It is water, the shapeless element, endowed with a form...
Life has existed on earth for about one billion years. Gold points out. It began as very simple forms of microscopic size, has developed slowly until only now is it reaching a level of physical development and technological competence that will allow descendants of those microbes to travel outside their own solar system. Certainly within the next few hundred years, he holds, man will be visiting planets of other solar systems. "Most of these planets will have unsuitable conditions for us to live there freely, but if they have no life on them, it is still possible that they...
What about the other galaxies that float in space far beyond the limits of the Milky Way? Astronomer Gold is one of the leading proponents of the steady-state universe theory, which holds that as old galaxies move apart, new galaxies form between them out of freshly created matter. Planets in new galaxies, he says, may be lifeless for a while, but eventually the contamination will reach them too. All they need is a single visit from an intergalactic germ-spreading spaceship...