Word: compacter
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...Life for everyone is enough of a struggle. Human beings need a religion based on compassion and understanding, as opposed to one that emphasizes the threat of hell. Catholicism will truly be tried when it unshackles the compact majority and forces it to make its own decisions on matters of faith and morals. The hierarchy may discover that this majority would indeed be harder on itself than the institution would ever dare...
...Night-Sea Journey" is a monologue of a spermatazoa on its way to the ovum. It is amusing, and, unlike the other stories, is about love, however abstractly that compact may be presented. There is, though, a basic flaw in the piece: In fantastic literature, the author is allowed to make any conditions he likes, but once these are established, the action must be within their limits. The reader will allow Barth to allow a spermatazoa to meditate, but he cannot allow that spermatazoa to record theories about his purpose (correct in every detail)--which theories no spermatazoa could ever...
...Adjustment. While a few companies-Ford is one-employ their own in-house anthropometric specialists, most rely on outside consultants. In recent years, anthropometry has enabled manufacturers to develop movie cameras compact enough to fit snugly in one hand, more fully rounded typewriter keys that are kinder to secretaries' fingernails and elevator buttons that are within the reach of tall and short peo- ple alike...
...Cleve Gray (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 176 pages; $22.95). The book offers the illuminating experience of hearing a sculptor speak for himself in prose and free verse that echoes what Smith himself called the "belligerent vitality" of his work. Smith's writings, like his sculpture, are apt to be compact and condensed, and his syntax is sometimes bewildering. Nonetheless, his thoughts become clear enough with a little patient attention. Excerpts...
...small ball before launching can be restored to its original form simply by heating it in space. The same procedure has been proposed for orbiting a radio telescope as large as a mile in diameter. "All we have to do," says Buehler, "is put these large structures into suitably compact packages on the ground and then kick them into space and let them unfold from solar heating...