Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rococo Invective. For a practicing iconoclast, however, Mencken chose surprisingly feeble icons of his own. As a young man, he fell for Nietzsche and his doctrinal fantasy of the Ubermensch. As misread by Mencken, Nietzsche provided license to despise the human race and delight in all things German-as epitomized by beer and Brahms. Politicians were rogues. The church was only a racket. People in general were boobs. Such were the underpinnings of Mencken's rococo invective. But when serious matters were involved, his philosophical resources were meager and his thinking often callow and jejune...
STAUDER spent one of his summers working with Mexican Indians-an experience that sparked an interest in social anthropology. Consistently Rank List 1 or 2. Stauder graduated in 1962 (although he chose 1961 as his social class). Winning a Marshall Scholarship, he spent the next two years in Cambridge, England, studying social anthropology...
...hunting season was in full swing, and Bear was among the 60,000 bowmen stalking the wily whitetail. The deer were in little danger; while one in four gun hunters bags a whitetail each season, only one in 20 bow hunters is successful. Reducing the odds further, Bear chose to hunt on St. Martin Island, an uninhabited, densely wooded patch in Lake Huron that stands as a kind of moated fortress of the whitetail. Associate Editor Ray Kennedy joined Bear. His report...
...come out to the plane so that he could kill them or be killed himself." Perhaps the troubled Marine, whose mother and sister live in Seattle, wanted to see his ailing 80-year-old father, who returned to Italy a year ago. If that was his aim, he chose an irrational way to achieve it. Italian authorities announced that Minichiello will stand trial for kidnaping and hijacking. In New York, U.S. officials filed charges of air piracy, kidnaping and other offenses that carry penalties from 20 years' imprisonment to death. At his Marine Corps court-martial, Minichiello faced...
...renowned chemist himself, Chaim Weizmann had originally hoped to establish a haven in Rehovot for émigré Jewish scientists. A number of illustrious names-Einstein, Bohr, Von Neumann -did advise the institute in its early years, but none chose to make it their permanent home. Instead of importing a scientific elite, Israel was forced to produce its own; 80% of the institute's permanent staff is Israeli. Unlike many labs elsewhere, it enjoys what its scientific council chief, Mathematician Joseph Gillis, calls "a negative brain drain": far more scientists are trying to get in than to leave...