Word: type
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...tendency to rise above his fate, bloody but unbowed, whereas the traditional tragic hero was reduced at the close to "the very last point of human finitude and helplessness." Today's "attempts at tragedy have abandoned this finite image for a new Pelagian tactic, for a new type of third act, the third act of the power and the exclamation point." Society & Ritual. Similarly, too many people turn in disgust from the finite facts of society and seek to escape toward the absolute. That is wrong, says Lynch: "But the Catholic imagination does not force me to imagine that...
Everyday crises of this sort are strangely reminiscent of what in TV parlance is known as "situation comedy." except that the meaning here is dead serious - adding up to a type of literature that might be called situation tragedy...
...mutual suspicion and to get a measure of protection against surprise attack, the U.S. in 1955 offered its 'open skies' proposal-a proposal which was rejected out of hand by the Soviet Union. It is in relation to the danger of surprise attack that planes of the type of the unarmed civilian U-2 aircraft have made flights along the frontiers of the free world for the past four years...
...about the U-2 seemed tailored to obtain the last inch of range, the last moment of endurance. The thin straight wings were a model of aerodynamic cleanliness; the raked, razorlike tail added a minimum of drag. Even the landing gear was pared to the final ounce. Light bicycle-type main wheels were aided by wingtip wheels that were dropped immediately after takeoff. Between gliding and plain powered flight, Sekigawa guessed that the U-2 could stay aloft as long as nine hours on a single trip...
...Cornell team tried to assemble the most homogeneous group they could find, settled on 139 men, aged 22-32, who held low-rung executive jobs in a big corporation. Their type of work, income ($6,000-$10,000) and behavior patterns were much the same. They differed only in education: 55 were college graduates, 84 were high school only...