Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Independent study, as presently constituted, has too many gut aspects, according to Epps. His office has very little idea of what people are doing on independent study projects, and he is uncertain whether independent study should be seen as a reading course, a tutorial, or just "a blank check." This year, Epps is asking supervisors to file reports on all independent study projects they are sponsoring, and he plans to ask the Faculty for new directions and new conceptions for the independent study program...
...seemingly innocuous transistor radio. And with so many sources, the interference is becoming more and more exasperating. Even the Government finds itself suffering from the technological pollution. Shortly after the Internal Revenue Service opened a new computer complex in Louisiana, part of the brain's memory suddenly went blank. Puzzled IRS officials eventually learned why. The center had been built under a flight path to the New Orleans airport, and radar signals from the field had erased tax records that had been freshly stored on the computer's magnetic tape...
...ISOLATIONIST challenge to the internationalist mentality (both Cold War and radical) has been disappointing so far. Isolationist liberals reject ideology but lack the courage of their convictions, shirking the point-blank predicaments of modern statecraft. They must first specify the genuine obligation, if any, of the U. S. to Europe, Japan and the Middle East. They must also confront in some co-herent way the problem of imperialism, Communist or anti-Communist. Anti-imperialist convictions might endanger the Soviet-American detente-a detente which most liberals now exploit as a primary tactic against excessive military spending. The new isolationists ignored...
...faced with the prospect of growing old in a society where the lines of experience inspire revulsion rather than respect in the young; where I see oldsters struggling to exist on inflated dollars they saved for a carefree retirement; where I see the blank and hopeless faces of wheel-chaired rows of idle pensioners in a nursing home; where I see old men fishing for carp at the city sewage outfall (the fish gather there to eat) because they can afford no other source of protein, early death by slow poison seems a delightful relief by comparison...
...spade," says a character in one of Christopher Fry's plays, "is never so merely a spade as the word spade would imply." At least not in Fry's plays. Fanciful and stylized, they are written in a verse that it hardly seems fair to call blank. Everything is cloaked in a brocade of metaphors. Was that a rooster's crow? No, it was "the pickaxe voice of a cock, beginning to break up the night." Did it rain? No, "the heavens emptied their pots." Fry uses such figures of speech-more figures than speech...