Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 28 weeks of discussion in 82 meetings, the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission this week finally sent its recommendations to the Security Council. The vote was 10 to 0; Russia and Poland abstained. The road to effective international control of the atom still ribboned away indefinitely into the distance-and the next two sections to be traveled would require unanimity. But the long A.E.C. survey had shown the only likely route...
...Japan, with its flimsy construction, was said to be No. i opportunity for fire, but I doubt if many died except from bomb contact or atom-bomb poison, because they could...
Modern man has developed innumerable devices for blowing himself up, giving himself bad eyesight, high blood pressure, flat feet, nervous indigestion, and ossification of the brain. He has produced an atom bomb and a panty girdle, the vitamin pill, the comic book, the subway gum machine, the soap opera and the revolving door. But in the minds of thousands of New Yorkers all of these achievements pale when compared to the Fifth Avenue...
...domination serve Elliott as trimming for this otherwise unpalatable idea. But American students will reject the idea that they should leave all contact with the outside world to the wiser heads of Connally and Vandenberg. They have the "naive" idea that the answer to world problems is not the atom bomb and the man-made plague. They will be wary of anyone who tries to fool them. That includes the Vogis of the Government Department as well as the Commissars. Professor Elliott would do us all a service to get an honest idea of what actually happened at Prague...
...anybody vainly looking for the atom bomb's familiar and awesome mushrooming spray, Abstractionist Crawford explained that he had painted what he felt, not what he saw. His paintings, he added, were "a comment on the negative and positive expressions of contemporary society, with an emphasis on the negative. . . . Definitely most people won't understand. . . . They approach pictures-not only my own but all works of art-with the mistaken idea that they can understand them after looking at them briefly. Yet these same people would expect to spend several hours on a work of art like...