Word: barriere
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...American Negro and his Rhodesian cousin. First, America is the wealthiest nation in the world. Consequently the American Negro is better off than his African counterpart both educationally and financially. Second, the American Negro speaks English, while Rhodesian Africans learn English only as a second language. A language barrier makes the integration of the two races more difficult...
...though he shunned liquor and tobacco-Wallace sounded at times as if his visions were hashish-fed. "At a certain point," wrote Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Coming of the New Deal, "his mind seemed almost to break through a sonic barrier and transform itself so that hardheaded analysis passed imperceptibly into rhapsodic mysticism." A Presbyterian, he flirted with an exotic cult led by a White Russian charlatan, served as an acolyte in the Episcopal Church and bombarded Roosevelt with allegorically couched advice on foreign policy. And, despite his closeness to the land and his concern for those who live...
...operate, it must first be accelerated to a speed of several hundred miles per hour by an auxiliary turbojet or rocket engine, or get a lift from a conventional plane. After that, enough air is rammed into the engine's front inlet to set up a pressure barrier that forces the burning gases to escape at the rear, thus providing thrust (see diagram...
Having passed the first barrier of disbelief, many readers may still feel that On Escalation is the outline of a horror story. There seems to be someing wrong with a theorist who constructs models of men dueling to the death in warehouses full of dynamite, and then worries about whether the lights will be on. People who criticize Kahn for being "cold-blooded" are on the right track, but they do not carry their reasoning far enough...
...sensitivity to what is natural, a few modern painters have found, in technology, a new medium for exploring nature. Fusing "life in the car", as one critic put it, with a nostalgic appreciation of the natural landscape, the painting and graphics of Daniel Lang break down the barrier between technology and nature in a new way. The artist portrays the experience of seeing nature through the window of a moving car. He uses the car to enhance his experience of the landscape and we feel at rest with his effort to bring technology into harmony with nature...