Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manic-depressive tendency. But, as his biographer Ralph Barton Perry notes, a potentially dangerous proclivity became transformed into a benign trait in the total, integrated personality. The extreme variability of moods gave James a quick sympathy for both tough-minded physicists and tender-minded religionists, guilt-ridden prophets and buoyant natural...
...proposition, of course, is the ultimate in economic feasibility. Use the Italian principle. But don't jack the temple up; simply float it up on buoyant tanks. For nothing more than the hell of it I'd be prepared to work out the physical concepts involved. JOHN R. BOWLES Chicago...
...Leningrad edition of Pravda reported acidly last week that the curator of the West European art history section of Leningrad's famed Hermitage Museum rose to defend "formalistic distortions and asserted that 'this is buoyant, creative art.' " What's more, the prominent director of the Comedy Theater, Nikolai P. Akimov, "furiously defended the right to unlimited experimentation with form." Painter Leonid A. Tkachenko not only backed up colleagues who were under attack, but "did not give a correct evaluation of criticism directed at himself...
...from 23 nations who gathered in Junin, Argentina, for last week's world soaring championships, engines are just excess weight, and flying a conventional airplane is about as exciting as riding a subway to work. To the sailplaner, the good things in life are a cramped cockpit, a buoyant wing, the song of the wind, and unending miles...
Dutiful Flying. Everything went right from the beginning. Sigma 7 bobbed into a beautifully circular orbit, and calm, cool Navy Commander Walter Marty ("Wally") Schirra, 39, was in buoyant good humor. "Sayonara!" he cried when the escape tower separated, and soon he reported "all systems green and go." Then he settled down to cheerful, competent and dutiful space flying. He watched the instruments closely and talked with each control station as he passed near it. Like the other astronauts, Schirra ran into trouble with the water boil-off system of his space suit, and its temperature became so high...