Word: things
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wankel engine is not as efficient as a diesel, but its makers say that its fuel consumption is about the same as the economical Volkswagen. The most extraordinary thing about it is its small size. A 28.6-metric-h.p. model is 8 in. in diameter, 6 in. long, weighs only 22 lbs. The Volkswagen engine has about the same horsepower, but is many times bigger and weighs...
...intangible or impalpable or indefinite that we tend to discount the element of hope, its reviving effect as well as its survival function." In psychiatry especially, he argues, there used to be an "impression that 'our patients never get well.' " In fact, says Dr. Menninger, the best thing that psychiatrists can do for their patients is to "light for them a candle of hope to show them possibilities that may become sound expectations...
...challenge from the world is plain, and so is the solution. "If one thing is clear," says Standard Oil (N.J.) Chairman Eugene Holman. "it is that we cannot go back. Weary slogans, old patterns of thought will not be too useful in the 1960s." As Holman and many another U.S. businessman knows, the growth of the U.S. was not accomplished by old patterns of thought. It was accomplished by new ideas and experimentation, by resourcefulness and eagerness...
...anecdotes, and a masterful and intricate essay on the value of a paper currency. In the profoundest sense, Franklin began a lifelong dialogue with his fellow Americans on their democratic destiny ("In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own"). But entertainment always had priority on instruction. None of the humor would draw a belly laugh today, though it was probably uproarious at the time; e.g., "We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek. The good...
...literary essays is typical: "Joyce, the mad baboon, herein gives the works to the patient antlike industry of man which has accumulated about him like an iron ring of dead learning." In a collection of aphorisms, the reader learns that "in life's ledger, there is no such thing as frozen assets." If the sage of Big Sur were to be judged from this book alone, it would be hard to justify Editor Durrell's prophecy that Miller may one day be classed with Whitman and Blake...