Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Reinhardt's The Miracle, in time of war no patrician matron of Imperial Rome could have been more intransigent, bellicose and stoic. Despite invincible fear of air travel, she flew with Duff in countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian "lu."† saw a second English generation of her class face death (on Dday, "two Mannerses"), and for a time, in "dung-covered boots," fed swill to pigs on a Sussex farm. Her bits on the horrors of life under British austerity...
...what exactly is the Loeb committee striving for? Must productions on the main stage of the Loeb be of professional quality in order, as the phrase goes, to meet the challenge of the facilities now available? Or will the Loeb continue the tradition of highly talented amateur production with the new theatre's facilities merely an aid? In effect, the Faculty committee appears to have chosen an unhappy compromise. Through virtually hand-picked plays, close supervision of design and execution, and the allowing of sometimes wholesale importation of actors who are not undergraduates and who often have no association with...
...difficulty was that the ACTH molecule is a protein, a long chain of amino acid groups linked together in a special sequence like a phrase in telegraphic code. If the code is not reproduced properly, synthetic ACTH will not do the magical things in the human body that natural ACTH does. Natural ACTH has 39 amino acid groups. Dr. Hofmann's synthetic copy has only 23, but this part of the chain seems to function biologically as well as the whole-somewhat as if a coded message were pruned of unnecessary words before being sent...
...assumption that such secret politics are in any way bizarre or peculiar to our own age. It seemed to me that what he was describing--committee maneuvers, the politics of hierarchy, and "court politics"--are traditional means by which men have always arrived at decisions. His use of the phrase "court politics" to describe Lindemann's alliance with his powerful patron, Churchill, indicates how timeless and universal such politicking is. And, after the war and a decade of precarious coexistence, I don't think that any of Snow's listeners were surprised to hear that there are important decisions made...
...current western attitude of hopelessness about politics and all attempts to organize men in he service of a common ideal. To the extent that his mood is born of a sense of the emptiness of so much of the activity in our society, and separating it from his catch-phrase talk about "future-directed" scientists, I would applaud it heartily...