Word: surmountable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atomic surge has compelled producers of conventional fuels to refine their own systems, lowering still further the competitive cost point that atomic fuel must reach. Power men are convinced that atomics will surmount this competition when the second generation of reactors arrives. Last week the AEC announced that its Idaho Falls testing station has generated electricity for the first time from plutonium, which actually re-creates itself as it produces power. That breakthrough will speed the arrival of advanced "breeder" reactors that will come close to satisfying man's quest for eternal energy...
...answer in Henry V. This play caps a four-part study of kingship in which we have portraits of three successive monarchs. In Richard II the playwright showed us a tragic and complex incompetent; in the two parts of Henry IV we have a competent king who cannot surmount the unlawful manner he secured the crown...
...that period, he might have dominated it, but in the 13th century individual ambition was kept in check by a strong church. Novelist Deiss, a rehabilitated public-relations man turned scholar, offers in this impressive biographical novel a solid, scrupulous recreation of Frederick's lifelong struggle to surmount his times...
Most first-grade readers are dull because the authors, uninventive to begin with, are unable to surmount the limitation of "controlled vocabulary"-a controversial theory that beginning readers must stick to a few bite-size words and repeat them often. Whatever the ultimate solution, a sensible first step is hiring real writers who can make even a few words dance...
...sort of wonderful, shy, gifted hillbilly. For once the priestly vocation and the artist's vocation-often hostile in direction-met in understanding. Few sons have written to their natural fathers as James Agee wrote to Father Flye. Such trust, love and the confidence in being understood seldom surmount the walls of consanguinity. The letters are also a vivid portrait of the artist as a young man-for Agee remained a young man to the day of his death, with all a young man's prodigal energies and frustrated intentions. In his introduction, Critic Robert Phelps calls Agee...