Word: clear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best popular scientific literature is written by scientists who having a command of their subject to begin with, learn to express their thoughts in prose clear and simple enough that the average person can understand it; in short, they successfully "write down" to their reader. Possibly the worst science writing is the reverse of this process; a journalists or some other unqualified commentator "writes up" to a subject, trying to explain to the reader something that he himself only vaguely understands. In "Cancer", Bewa Doherty attempts just such a feat and fails rather miserably...
...much in favor of freedom of speech as anybody, but there is something to the clear and present danger concept. Someday somebody's going to pull a muscle trying to get out of Emerson. The windows of Emerson are too high to afford another entrance, and the University has not seen fit to open the other half of the doors. It's up to the student in the street to solve this problem...
Faulkner's book suggested that the North, East and West should leave Southerners alone to work out their own redemption for mistreating the Negro. The Faulknerian message is left out of a movie that could have stood almost any sort of clear social comment...
...study so all-absorbing that they had tried to whip it out of him. "But," said the Squire, the "bright colors in crockeryware are made permanent by the action of fire [and so] the warm application of the birch rod did but . . . render my ruling passion more distinct and clear...
...devilishly clever plot. Posing as maintenance men, they are hatching schemes to frazzle nerves, and prevent undergraduates from getting their rightful hours of sleep. Their purpose is clear--to turn brother against brother, friend against friend, mankind against itself, to produce a reign of terror of REVOLUTIONARY PROPORTIONS...