Word: path
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...method. In the cyclotron the protons are subjected to a constant magnetic field and spiral out in ever-increasing orbits; in the election accelerator, on the other hand, the orbit is constant and the magnetic field is increased in order to keep the electrons in a stable path. The cyclotron, Preston says, unlike the C.E.A., can properly be called an "accelerator," for the velocity at the end of the experiment is still "only a few tenths of the speed of light...
...reckoning is at hand. The nature of the contemporary crisis involves the ultimate question of man's capacity to survive it. The odds on the survival of mankind: 52 to 55 for, 48 to 45 against. The path to salvation: creative altruism...
...concise without suffering that mechanical rigor mortis which lurked in such abundance in the ranks of the Bauhaus. If this is German art, it is German in the sense that it pursues the kind of gentle lyricism which illuminates the music of Haydn, and in that it follows the path of classical rectitude which soars so in Bach. Happily, these works are devoid of the more histrionic and sentimental aspects of Teutonic picture making which plagued so many of Feininger's contemporaries. Feininger's concern is to sing rather than to cry out. The effect, in a painter, is becoming...
...advice to an unfortunate, "Cheer up; things could be worse." So he did and they were. At present, any developments in the Formosa crisis offer alternatives which can turn out only bad or worse for U.S. interests. Unfortunately, the Administration has chosen what seems to be the worse path...
...Failure. Zhivago's tortuous path takes him from boyhood at his mother's grave through the lurid landscape of war and revolution. An utterly credible and pitiable man. he is seen first as a student whose gift for happiness makes him feel lost among the fanatical miseries of Russian revolutionary youth. All are anarchists, nihilists. pro-Bolsheviks: young Zhivago is merely human, and he remains stubbornly human as he moves through marriage, friendships, his career as a physician, front-line service in World War I. In the vast plains of Russia, he seeks to shelter his family from...