Word: adheresent
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¶A U.N. employee whose country undergoes a change in government (as in Czechoslovakia when the Communists took over) should be allowed to keep his U.N. job, even if his own government objects, provided that he adheres to the laws of "the host country." Such employees, of course, should refrain...
He heaves his heaviest boulders at the old argument that Christian moral values can be maintained by the individual outside of any organized religion. "The experience of worship is something different in community from what it is in solitude . . . To say that one adheres to Christian values, and then to...
Classical Drill. Says Tristano: "Our harmonies are strongly impressionistic. Melodically, I've tried to go beyond bop, which adheres largely to the given harmonic structure; we don't restrict ourselves to the chord when we play melody. Our rhythms are superimposed one on the other. Sometimes I play...
Sac Slitter. As Dr. Thompson describes it, the operation works this way: the heart sac is slit open, then two drams of especially fine talc are spread on the inside of the sac membrane. Fine as it is, the talc acts as an irritant. The sac becomes inflamed and much...
Stephen Spender's summer lecture on "Modern Poetry and Science" serves as an excellent lead article. Spender, one of American's leading poets, believe into the historical relationship between science and poetry. Despite the sustainedly involved nature of his sentence structure, Spender's speech makes interesting and often enlightening reading...