Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...College friends him as dynamic, able, interesting, well high minded, and idealistic he enjoyed college, but consider properly, as a means to an end of them says. "He looked for the active world of newspaper and government. He always definite ideas on whatever talking about. If there was thing that differentiated his the rest of us, it was that exactly what he wanted...
Meyer has effectively changed the texture of Vermont political discussion; he has provided a friction point that the people can use to construct their own opinions. Because no one political attitude has proved infallible, he told a group of voters last weekend, "The important thing is not to be right, but to consider each course of action. Too often Americans see one side of a complex problem. We should try to present them with the other. And I happen to think that history will show that my attitude was the correct...
...microscope, the electron microscope has already given man his first look at viruses and promises to become one of medicine's most useful tools. Says Physicist Hillier, 45: "The electron microscope is like the monkey wrench on the garage wall; what you do with it is the important thing." Other Lasker Award winners...
...were cautiously aware that a slide so mild could be quickly arrested. W. T. Diebold of the Bell Telephone Co. of Ohio liked the term ''high-level stagnation" to describe what is happening to the economy. Myron Silbert of Federated Department Stores called the drop "a mild thing'' that will not approach previous downturns. But whatever they called it, almost all of the other business econo mists contended that the current slide will get worse before it gets better...
...Durrell, this discovery is a kind of Dionysian revel of language, a sunburst of images. Red wine is "volcano's blood." The evening air is "cool as the breath from the heart of a melon." A sunset in Rhodes becomes a conflagration. This is the kind of thing Durrell does so well that he tends to overdo it. But, periodically, he lifts imagery to insight. Many have written of the preternatural brilliance and clarity of the Greek light, but Durrell sensitively isolates its effect when he calls Greece not a country but a living eye: "The traveler in this...