Word: arrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miraculous genesis three billion years ago, life has been continually renewing and remaking itself, an evolutionary process that has led to the appearance of a unique creature quite unlike any of those before him. Thinking, feeling, striving, man is what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called "the ascending arrow of the great biological synthesis...
James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts; Rudolf Arnheim, professor of the Psychology of Art; Emaque Anderson-Imbert, Thomas Professor of Hispanic, American Literature; Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics; W. B. Berthoff, professor of English; Winslow R. Briggs, professor of Biology; E. Bruce Brooks, assistant professor of Chinese; Thomas E. Cheatham, Jr., professor of Computer Science; George L. Clarke, professor of Biology; John H. Coates, assistant professor of Mathematics; William D. Cochran, assistant clinical professor of Pediatrics; Albert M. Craig, professor of History; A. Dalgarno, professor of Astronomy; Bernard D. Davis, professor of Bacterial Physiology; John T. Edsall, professor...
That was one of the rare occasions in his life when Dan George needed anyone's help. A descendant of six generations of Tse-lal-watt chiefs, Dan George as a boy hunted on Seymour Mountain with bow and arrow (he scoffs at "white Indian" westerns: "No Indian holds a bow perpendicular. You must shoot with the bow horizontal so the arrow doesn't curve to the ground"). He helped his father log the tribe's timber and often paddled a canoe into Vancouver for supplies. Baptized a Roman Catholic like his father and grandfather, Dan George...
There are certain psychic risks, of course, to a life led beneath the surface of domestic bliss. In the darkest Amazon, when a poison arrow proves nearly fatal, Margaret finds herself praying, "Paul, my darling, if I make it home to you ... I will learn to bake bread and make chocolate mousse." Here the most committed housewife asleep in her phoenix dreams will recognize that she and Margaret are soul mates. Few crises cannot be better met if the house is filled with the aroma of freshly baked bread. In the end, Margaret affirms the reality of her existence...
Morale, Too. For all their disregard of actual historical combat, war-gamers are intent on absolute accuracy in setting the stage. Gamers fight with rule book and tables of fire close at hand. The rules cover four basic elements of battle: movement, missile fire (usually cannon, rifle or arrow), melee (close combat) and morale. Movements, for example, are executed closely to scale; players deploy their soldiers according to careful tape measurement. The result of artillery fire is determined by tables compiled from actual battle experience, and by the toss of dice, to add the element of unpredictability. When plastic soldiers...