Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading motive of revenge from the main character, there is no large action in A Breath of Air. The story sits still as a Pacific island; yet it is almost as hard for the reader's eye to look away from it as for the sun to blink...
...skepticism, we think, is a healthy thing. It is that curious process of mind which makes a man blink at his environment, scratch his head, and try to figure out what is going on. There is considerable historical evidence that such a process may be a valuable one. Newton, for example, was raised in an environment which taught him that all objects had a proper place, and that if given a chance they would find that place. Newton watched a falling apple, skeptically refused to believe it was heading for its only true and rightful place, and developed a theory...
...capital had seen in many a month. Its big, rambling "American Procession: 1492-1900" filled twelve galleries and six corridors, and was as exciting and various as the history it recounted. Moreover, there wasn't a painting that the average summer visitor couldn't grasp at first blink...
...sort of ad that would make any schoolteacher blink, yet there it was, smack in the middle of the Philadelphia school system's spring catalogue of in-service courses for teachers. "Are you interested in how you look . . .? Would you care to glimpse some of the newest fashions in clothes? Of hair styles becoming to different types . . .? Does your voice have that quality that makes pupils want to listen...