Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown speaks as a poet to another poet, Eberhart, and the subject is the common goal of the two--to attain universality of sympathy and expression. The goal is one which no poet has attained--there is a lingering but powerful hint in the poem's background of the author's realization that he may be doomed to failure in seeking it. But the poem is more an exhortation to achievement, in which the author incites himself and another to accomplish what previous poets have failed...
...Russell, chairman of the State Federation, stated that he "doesn't want unity at the cost of labor. If that's what is meant by unity then let me tell you have unity." However, he emphasized, labor is willing to sacrifice equally with other parts of society to attain harmony...
Because the jellylike body tissues tremble for a brief instant after every "blow" from the heart, after-vibrations warp part of the record. Hence Dr. Starr believes that his machine will never attain "highest precision." Nevertheless it is good enough to: 1) detect early, hitherto invisible cases of heart disease; 2) show the relation between high blood pressure and heart function; 3) differentiate between various types of heart disease...
...Aristotelian science, stained windows of Revelation. In his great study of medieval France, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams sympathetically noted the judgment of Pope Leo XIII: "On the wings of St. Thomas's genius, human reason has reached the most sublime height it can probably ever attain...
...declared: "I used to balance two broiled chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat on the flesh of the woman I love when the sun was setting, I was finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York." Last week, when Painter Dali and his wife debarked at Jersey City, he announced that he was "a reformed and much more conservative...