Word: rivulets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silver of persuasion, the gold of assurance, the hard diamond of logic, and sometimes the brass of sheer arrogance. Tall, gangling TV Star (Medic; Have Gun, Will Travel) Richard Boone brings to his Lincoln the homely gravity of the Mathew Brady photographs. His drawling voice begins like a modest rivulet picking its way over pebbles of country wit and wisdom, then swiftens into a stream of social inquiry and protest, and finally cascades in a thundering waterfall of conscience aroused: "A vast portion of the American people do not look upon slavery as a very little thing. They look upon...
...study of national character, according to Riesman, has grown out of an interaction of psychoanalysis, anthropology and history. The first two fields have a kinship, he remarked, in their common concern for "underprivileged data," (dreams, games, weaning habits), and search for "the rivulet of motive in the tidal wave of history." But "groups, like scholars, may differ over what is basic in society," and to understand these differences, a study of history is necessary...
Adler unwittingly scorned 700 years of German academic tradition as he tried to interrupt with a remark, but the wave obscured the rivulet...
...College was meeting in the civil auditorium, studying up to the moment when movies were shown in the afternoon. On one hillside just outside of town, a girls' high school was holding forth in the shadow of a Japanese shrine, primary classes were meeting in a dried-up rivulet, and a boys' school was holding classes in a glen at the foot of the hill...
...district in the center superblock. Only footpaths, bicycle and bullock-cart paths cross the superblocks: all bus, truck and automobile traffic goes around them; for direct traffic to the capitol from outside the city, two wide highways, called greenways, run from end to end of the city. A rivulet running through the valley will be dammed at one end for a lake which will reflect the capitol buildings. The city will start with a population of 150,000, can be expanded...