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...nouns, pronouns, verbs and phrases-a custom thought until now to be mostly whimsical, as in whyness or everydayness-has become popular among distinctly unjocose people. In Clock Without Hands, Novelist Carson McCullers repeatedly alludes to livingness-meaning, as Teacher Foote sees it, "the hum of hot blood, the buzz, the throb of passion," which is perhaps also "felt sappily by flowers and vegetables." Thingness, as used by Poet John Ciardi, "the sober Saul of modern letters," apparently connotes some ineffable quality of poetic words when uttered by a poet. When Novelist J. D. Salinger's Franny cries...
Instead of working with butterflies, the Drs. Brower selected two insects, the bumblebee and the robber fly, that are very distantly related but look very much alike. Both are covered with light and dark fur; both have hairy legs and buzz...
Working out in Briggs Cage three times per week the past month, the fifteen has missed the services of Buzz Miller, Dave McGugan, and Fred Winthrop, all of whom left school this term...
According to current engineering theory, quiet is created by adding noise. Such background noises as the soft buzz of a fluorescent light or the slight hiss of an air cooler do not inhibit concentration (whereas the sound of voices or footsteps does). If background noise in an office averages 20 decibels (the unit for measuring sound) and distracting noise 30, the best solution is not to add expensive soundproofing but to increase the background noise by 15 or more decibels. In a Rhode Island hospital, when doctors complained that conversations carried from one office to the next, a pencil-sized...
More Matchmaking. With Eastern in the red by $5,400,000 last year, President "Mac" Maclntyre says that he has contemplated merger with almost every other major airline (and airmen buzz that he kept several of them on tippytoes to wangle sweeter terms out of American). American's C. R. Smith, flourishing a $6,800,000 profit and ardently disclaiming that he is fascinated by bigness alone, says the merger makes economic sense for both sides. Both presidents deny that the new line would be monopolistic, since it would still face from one to seven competitors...