Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course of this rather haphazard series of essays, Galbraith provides some comments relevant to Goldwater, Bowles and, in particular, the 1960 campaign. Since Galbraith comments have a way of standing on their own, it may be sufficient to merely quote a few that seem particularly apt...
...second time to see if any air masses on the same level are moving rapidly past each other. If this is the case, he marks another area on his map (see diagram). If the areas overlap, the overlap has the two necessary kinds of violent shear. It is therefore apt to be full of wing-wracking CAT. The troubled air is usually only a few thousand feet thick, and it slopes upward, its high end toward a slow-moving air mass that is being jostled by the speedy jet stream...
...offending master disk over his knees, as he did at Naples a few years ago, destroying two weeks' work. On the concert stage he is equally unpredictable, sometimes performing in a sport coat or overcoat before audiences in dinner jackets or tails. He balks at applause, is apt to stalk away from cries for encores...
High up in his office in Manhattan's Seagram Building, which he helped Mies build. Johnson is apt to feel a bit wistful about the old days. "Of course I'm nostalgic for the old period of battle when we all fought for the International Style. Everyone hates labels, but that's what we were-there was a style, a movement, a discipline." Now, says Johnson, architecture is moving not in one direction but many. The result may be chaos, but there could also be even more excitement...
Since a priest is also a man, his human appetites are apt to get in the way of his vocation. Graham Greene used this simple fact of religious life with searing effect in The Power and the Glory. In his second novel, Author William Michelfelder, onetime reporter on the New York World-Telegram and Sun, cannot stand comparison with his master, but he tries to outdo him in compassion. Greene's whisky-drinking, fornicating priest in revolution-torn Mexico could only try to make amends by persisting in God's work at the risk of his life. Father...