Word: linearity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...command. Most of the concrete progress at Fontainebleau has been on the technical level. Map work and photographic interpretation have been standardized, as well as some technical equipment, such as naval couplings, which will permit ships of all Western Union navies to refuel one another at sea. The metric linear measure system has been accepted by Western Union artillery, but centigrade has not yet triumphed over Fahrenheit. Basic manuals for all Western Union forces will be published. The five sovereign nations have not, however, exchanged their secret codes...
...Jerome, Chairman of the Cultural Commission of the Communist Party, and, Geoffrey W. White '49 New England Student Secretary of the Communist Party, will speak on "The Trial of the Communists" at 3 p.m. tonightin linear...
This sense of self-importance, this humorlessness, is characteristic of an approach to criticism--and to fiction--that has no vitality and that is typical of the Advocate. A magazine recently said that there are "images of linear discreteness" in William Faulkner's fiction. That magazine was a literary quarterly but it might just as well have been the Advocate. So the Advocate's editors should think about Faulkner's answer when the New York Times asked him what he thought of that piece of criticism. "Look," he said, "I'm just a writer. Not a literary...
Novelist William Faulkner complained that literary fame takes a terrible toll. The Kenyan Review had printed a piece that referred to Faulkner's "images of linear discreteness," and "images of curve." But: "Look," explained Faulkner to the New York Times Book Review, "I'm just a writer. Not a literary man . . ." And all those book reviews made things awkward around home (Oxford, Miss.): " 'Why look here,' they'll say, 'Bill Faulkner's gone and got his picture in the New York paper.' So they come around and try to borrow money, figuring...
...cool, keen eye for the construction of things in nature and on paper makes Karasz' designs consistently acceptable, but like any artist she hits her peak only occasionally. One of the best papers in last week's show, a linear, oriental-seeming study of ducks in long grass (see cut), was inspired just back of her Brewster, N.Y. house. "We had a pair of yellow ducks," she explained, "and the children were chasing them. All I had to do was put it down. Things often come that way, but of course I understood how the blades of grass...