Word: paste
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Past & Future. Only two great monuments of the past compete with the streamlined, glass-walled modern city. The 14th century duomo, its pinnacles and spires topped by saints and angels, stands in the geographic center of the city; sightseers and lovers go by elevator to the roof to admire the view of the wide Lombard plain and the snowy crest of Mont Blanc. The grim battlements of Sforzesco Castle still brood over their grassy moat, and Leonardo da Vinci's faded master piece, The Last Supper, is slowly peeling on the wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle...
Since the distance, in turn, is proportionate to the speed, what Rudolph Minkowski got was a photographic glimpse of something 6 billion light years away-and 6 billion years ago-probably before the earth or its sun were formed. During the past 6 billion years, the galaxies may have accelerated to almost the speed of light. If so, they have passed over the brink of the theoretically visible universe and entered a sort of limbo which cosmologists visualize only vaguely...
...year veteran at 28, Mantle should be in his peak years. He still has perhaps the highest potential in major-league history, and his past record is star caliber. But Mantle is wildly erratic. At his best, he hits home runs in fusillades-as he was doing last week. At his worst, he strikes out in dreary succession. For more than a year his bad days have outnumbered the good...
...summer's afternoon nine years ago, a Cadillac careened at high speed past a stop sign onto a highway in suburban Philadelphia, directly in the path of a huge trailer truck. The driver of the car-Albert Coombs Barnes, multimillionaire, eccentric and owner of one of the world's greatest collections of modern art-died instantly. When the news of Barnes's violent end reached him, Henri Marceau, curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, had an awed comment: "How natural." Long before his death, Albert Barnes's fabulous collection of French and American modern...
...Tenth Man. Stumbling into sentimentality, Playwright Paddy Chayefsky nevertheless manages sensitively to sketch the story of a troubled young couple who employ the superstitions of the past as a help in facing the realities of the present...