Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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CIVIL RIGHTS. Johnson brought the subject up repeatedly, even without provocation, with the flat statement: "Under Jack Kennedy, the Democratic Party will guarantee the constitutional rights of every American, no matter what his race, religion-or what section of the country he comes from." The last qualifying phrase admittedly and deliberately softened the touchy issue for many white Southerners who feel subjected to a certain regional apartheid in other parts of the country...
...script's attempts at shocking dialogue either fall flat or are pointlessly vulgar. There is, it should be noted, a difference between a shocking line and a vulgar one. In an effectively staged but poorly written suicide scene, young Rutland's speech alternates between teen-age hipness and Southern degeneracy. Rutland eyes Sandy Dennis (playing Millicent Bishop, soon to be a corpse) lecherously and leers, "We gone take it from the top." When Millie blurts out the news that she is pregnant, Rutland reacts all over the place: he babbles to himself, "Millie, Millicent, Millicentus..." He declares, "There...
...proposed super-directorate. They were distressed by the weakening of the alliance implicit in De Gaulle's demand for replacement of integrated NATO military forces by independent national commands. On both scores, Washington agrees. Three weeks ago the U.S. quietly informed the NATO Council of its flat opposition to all De Gaulle's plans for "reforming the alliance...
...pillar that rises from the base to shoulder, neck or head level. The pillar serves no functional purpose; it does not support the statue but follows the contours of the figure as if it intruded into or grew out of the person represented. Its rear plane is flat and is frequently covered with columns of symbols. Yet some scholars suggest that the shaft is perhaps the most essential part of a Late Period statue, because it is the seat of the Ka, or vital force, thought to endow the subject with divine power...
Swiss Psychologist Bärbel Inhelder suggests some translations. For example, a five-year-old thinks that a tall glass contains more water than a flat bowl. Shown that glass and bowl contain equal amounts, he is learning the principle of the invariance of quantities. In fact, a grade school teacher with a roulette wheel may turn out students more skilled in probabilistic reasoning than a college professor with a course in statistics...