Word: crystalize
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...sedan wound its way along a narrow ribbon of dirt road in Clay County's back country. On the way, the former sheriff who had agreed to produce an authentic moonshiner spoke with real pride of the man's wares. "His whisky's good stuff-crystal clear," he said. "Stinks to high heaven, but if you can get past the smell, it'll set you on your head or butt faster 'n he'd blow your innards out for smiling courtin'-like at his daughters. When I was high sheriff...
Among the other treasures: crystal flutes; a ceramic horn from Germany, painted with blue flowers and glazed; fish-shaped slit drums from Japan; 5-in.-long fiddles that 18th century dancing masters carried in their pockets; Indian randsringas, a form of trumpet (left); New Guinea bull-roarers (wood carvings designed to roar when swung over the head on a string); and walking sticks that unfold into violins for instant serenades...
...modes of opposition or criticism acceptable in a university community, the majority editorial is veritable mishmash. First, the majority editorial is wrong in charging that the signers of the public Faculty statement were seeking "to eliminate acceptable forms of opposition to Herrnstein's though." The Faculty statement was crystal clear in its concern with unacceptable forms of opposition in a university community, which included false and offensive placards and leaflets (as David Landau's article on Dec. 7th fully demonstrated), threats to disrupt classes, and picketing. As a signer of the Faculty statement I consider these thoroughly unacceptable means...
...Skinner's book seems nebulous, it is because the book is not a clarion call for a new society, only a whispered voice suggesting the possibility. If we may borrow once more from Dostoevsky, Skinner is not the architect of the Crystal Palace, merely a surveyor who says that the ground exists on which to build it. Nowhere in the course of the book does Skinner draw up a blueprint for the technology of behavior, he only states that it can be drawn up. In an unfortunate and telling comparison he likens the state of his technology to the state...
...karat gold, pens and pencils, key rings, ashtrays and African stamps bearing the general's likeness. At the curio shop of the father of René Piot, the last villager to talk to the general, are De Gaulle chinaware and letter openers, De Gaulle inside a crystal ball surrounded by floating snow, De Gaulle busts, statuettes, books, records, cassettes, calendars, and crosses of Lorraine of various types. In one respect, however, the general's prophecy has proved wrong. There are absolutely no mementos in nougatine...