Word: commandant
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...seven words, generally enigmatic, may come to a man's mind. He cannot contain himself and shouts them out. If the poem does not stir [people], nothing comes to pass; but if the poet's words strike them, they all draw away without a sound, under the command of a holy dread. Now he is a man no longer but a god, and anyone has license to kill...
...researchers can ever learn to intercept the genetic command that orders brain cells to link up in a particular way, they may eventually be able to substitute commands of their own. That, in turn, might enable them some day to prevent wiring defects in mice and possibly even in higher mammals, including...
...this crisis by a circuitous route. Son of a small stockbroker in New York, he was the first member of his family to go to college (Amherst), and there was no radicalism then. In the late '50s he even served as an intelligence officer for the Strategic Air Command. It was only in 1965, when he was already well established in Stanford's English department, that he began to turn into a "revolutionary," which he defined as "someone who believes that the rich people who run the country ought to be overthrown and that the poor and working...
...light-skinned people to wear protective clothing in warm, humid climates racist? Are historians who point to the exploitation and oppression of blacks, Indians and Chicanos racist? Should they deny reality? Should they suggest that blacks were targets of discrimination on a geographical basis, a metaphysical basis, a divine command? Such questions make Mark's definition look ridiculous, but, alas, these are not the questions to which Mark alludes...
Died. General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., 65, a commander of U.S. bomber forces in the Pacific during World War II and the Korean conflict; of a heart attack; in McLean, Va. A Brooklyn boy whose pink cheeks earned him the nickname Rosie, O'Donnell was a light, fleet West Point halfback before obtaining his commission in 1928. He led B-17 Flying Fortresses defending American positions in the Philippines early in World War II, later evacuated Allied troops from Burma and airlifted supplies "over the hump" of the Himalayas. After receiving his first general's star...