Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Readers who spotted errors, or thought they did, seemed more than anxious to point them out. When the magazine seated Charles de Gaulle in a Louis XV rather than a Louis XVI chair, we heard about it. And we were sternly reprimanded for ascribing a brief quote to Aeschylus. (The author was Hesiod...
...broadly worded eight-page brief filed in Manhattan's Federal District Court, the trustbusters charged IBM with blocking competitors from "an adequate opportunity to compete." One complaint was that companies that sell only hardware or software or maintenance services could not easily win customers because IBM offered the whole package at a single price. For certain customers, such as universities, the suit continued, IBM set unreasonably low prices in order to crush competitors. The suit also charged that IBM had quashed the sales prospects of newly developed rival machines by simply announcing new products of its own-even though...
...have read this brief selection as background for the rest of my discussion of the Deaf Dumb and Blind Boy concept. As far as I can tell, with a few rare exceptions, it is the scientist who usually explores different points of view, seeking some sort of objectivity. It seems that one of the most revealing ways of exploring one-self is to examine the limits and variances in perception. It is such an inquiry into ourselves that is at the roots of Deaf Dumb and Blind Boy. Suppose a person has none of the normal mechanisms of perception...
...Beirut raid. The already shaky government of Premier Abdullah Yafi toppled amid a crossfire of recriminations over the Beirut airport's lack of defenses. In the Premier's palace, President Charles Helou called in Rashid Karami, 47, who first won an international name as leader of a brief, Nasser-supported rebellion that brought U.S. Marines rushing to Lebanon in 1958. Karami has since served as Premier five times, the last time during the Six-Day War, when he ordered Lebanon's army into battle against Israel. The army prudently refused to budge...
...money supply. For much of 1968, the Reserve Board allowed the money stock to grow at an annual rate of 11%. But in the four weeks ended Jan. 1, the money supply rose at a 3.6% annual rate. By any measure, that amounts to a significant-if so far brief-squeeze...