Word: thoughtfullness
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Cellini's first hint that he had found something important was the presence of a few spots of wax where the 13th century canvas had deteriorated. To him the spots spelled encaustic, a method of painting with pigments mixed in hot wax, which was common among the ancients. Cellini...
Blemishes & Cures. No one, least of all thoughtful Italians, argues that Italy has solved all its economic problems. There are still an estimated 2,000,000 unemployed in a work force of 20 million. Agriculture is still largely backward, and industry suffers from lack of capital and from a feudal...
¶ PLEASURE DOME (Columbia; $5.95). Thoughtful selections, some from the Library of Congress recording of 20th Century Poetry in English: T. S. Eliot. Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams and others, reading from their own works.
"Whitey" and "Brownie" Reid are as different as the colors of their nicknames. Slender, sandy-haired Whitey (Yale '36) is a quiet, thoughtful ex-Navy aviator; he has been editor for the past eight years. Stocky, dark-haired Brownie (yale '49) is a driving, fast-talking ex-paratrooper...
40,000 Brothers. The more thoughtful members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy still had open and even somewhat divided minds on the subject, and the Copernicus-Galileo theory might have prevailed if disgruntled scholars and disputatious monks had not begun a muttering campaign against Galileo which forced the issue prematurely...