Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newton, probably the most important of all scientists, is surely nine-tenths myth. Absent-minded, able to concentrate exclusively on his work for long hours during his fertile period, and generally refusing to pay any attention to getting his work published. Newton is the type of the Scientific Genius. But there is a more sordid, or at least more human, side to Newton's life. After quarreling with one astronomer (John Flamsteed) he removed from the second edition of the Principia all passages from the first edition in which he had acknowledged his debt to the man. In a paper...
...this peculiar awareness of events beyond himself, of history, of classicism, of others' predicaments, that lends to Wilbur's verse an importance often absent in the work of younger poets. American poetry seems to have always been dominated by something during this century: by Eliot, or W. C. Williams, or now by confessionalism. What is so remarkable about Wilbur is the way in which he belongs to other ages than his own, without ignoring the crises of the present. In a rare political poem he read at Harvard, Wilbur spoke of President Johnson's less than gracious response...
...Although your articles on the Olympics were frustratingly short, they did provide insight as to the thrill and drama of the Games. But while you gave credit to the dominance of the American swim team, the name of Charlie Hickcox was absent. Fast becoming the Yanks' premier male swimmer, Hickcox grabbed three golds and a silver medal in Mexico. He annexed the 200-and 400-meter individual medley crowns and swam to a second place in the 100-meter backstroke. He also led off America's world-record-setting medley relay team. Hickcox now holds world records...
...Conner had been absent without leave from Fort Bragg, N.C. since September 14. His sanctuary at M.I.T., the longest ever held, began on October...
...going down the Mississippi on a raft or over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Ordinarily too, the ovum travels singly, like Lewis or Clark, in the kind of existential loneliness which Norman Mailer usually admires. One might say that the activity of ova involves a daring and independence absent, in fact, from the activity of spermatozoa, which move in jostling masses, swarming out on signal like a crowd of commuters from the 5:15. The physiological contrast of apathy and enthusiasm might reasonably shift to one of individualism and conformity...