Word: classicize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, Podgorny's visit was almost certainly more of a political reconnaissance than a mission of condolence; it was a classic essay in the kind of duplex diplomacy at which the Russians are masters: talking on one level while acting?or failing to act?on another. Despite the noise and despite even the MIGS, the Russians were obviously playing for time. As evidenced at Holly Bush, Kosygin's visit to the U.S. was also at once a holding action and a salvage operation. Longer-range Russian tactics remained unclear?probably to the Russians themselves...
...Harlem or a Watts or a Hough, or any of a dozen other big-city slums where rotting tenements and crestfallen store fronts can spell riot on sweltering summer nights. Yet Atlanta's Dixie Hills-600 cheap apartment units built within the last decade-had all of the classic ingredients for violence, and four nights of turmoil last week added Atlanta to the list of cities that have been hit by ghettomania this spring and summer...
...hired Van Langenhoven and moved him to Daisy's home plant in Rogers, Ark., where the chemist concentrated on perfecting a solid propellant while the company's engineers were designing air rifles capable of using it efficiently. After five years, their combined efforts produced a weapon of classic simplicity. The V-L (for Van Langenhoven) bullet consists merely of a cylindrical plug of solid propellant attached to the rear of a slug or missile. When the trigger of a V-L rifle is pulled, a powerful spring drives a cocked plunger into a cylinder, compressing and heating...
...never, in fact, quite belonged to it. It now appeared to me too narrowly limited by its governing principles and prejudices." A Prelude is thus not only the scrapbook of a growing writer but also an American echo of Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That-the classic farewell to innocence and youth in the comfortable era before...
...born scientist who spent eight years in the Canary Islands (1913-21) studying the behavior of chimpanzees, made important findings bolstering the Gestalt theory (that physiological impulses should not be treated as isolated phenomena but as interdependent parts of a complex system with properties of its own), wrote the classic statement of this theory (Gestalt Psychology 1929), then emigrated from Germany to the U.S. in 1935 to continue research as a professor at Swarthmore and later Dartmouth; of a heart attack; in Enfield...