Word: breed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unfamiliar than did art. Perhaps in an unconscious response, artists (Capote, Mailer, et al.) became entertainers, and scientists took on the look of poets. There was poetry in outer space and in double helixes, whereas in poetry itself T.S. Eliot's Hollow Men of 1925 seemed merely to breed the self-absorption of Robert Lowell's Life Studies in 1959. Tragedy shriveled to the Death of a Salesman. Robert Conquest wrote a poem, For the 1956 Opposition of Mars, in which he exulted, "Pure joy of knowledge rides as high as art." Knowledge has seemed to ride higher...
...make-believe world of the penny arcade, pinball was once a game without peer. But pinball, alas, lost some of its cachet in high-speed modern life-until 18 months ago when there appeared a new breed of coin-operated games that use sophisticated electronic technology to simulate everything from playing table tennis to driving a race car. Besides giving birth to a nationwide fad, the games have also revived the sagging coin-game industry, boosting its revenues and ushering in a new era of cutthroat competition...
Newspaper coverage on science was also primitive. When an imaginative physicist named Robert H. Goddard talked of some day reaching the moon with a new breed of multistage rockets powered by liquid fuel, an editorial in the New York Times noted sarcastically that Goddard didn't know that a rocket had "to have something better than a vacuum against which to react...
While billions are spent on defense overkill-more weapons than could ever be needed-we seem to have completely lost control of crime and the conditions that breed it. When Americans see fit to wall in their residential areas and pay to transform their loving pets into vicious guard dogs, our plight is tragic indeed...
...first summer job through his union head dad welding iron ore--a bell rings in his head and a credo resounds loud and clear: the only two loyalties in life that count are union and family, and so long as those two pillars of institutionalism remain intact, life will breed security, happiness, and the American dream. So long as no one bucks the system, the blood flows smoothly...