Word: crux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Francis, as well as I, knew almost nothing about how inorganic ions were arranged in three dimensions. We had to face the bleak situation that the world authority on the structural chemistry of ions was Linus Pauling himself. Thus if the crux of the problem was to deduce an unusually clever arrangement of inorganic ions and phosphate groups, we were clearly at a disadvantage. By midday it became imperative to locate a copy of Pauling's classic book, The Nature of The Chemical Bond...
...crux of the Western human condition lies in what the great Indian Chief Drowning Bear said in a penetratingly revealing remark about the Bible: "It seems to be a very good book. Strange that the white people are not better, after having had it so long...
...might dispute the statement that most of the new-comers to the pre-med world are biologists, chemists, and even mathematicians and physicsts, who fit the "science wonk" description. And, this single statement seems to be the crux of Jerry's argument; "they won't be practicing physicans. And therein lies the tragedy of the situation. For instant pre-meds have, on the average, more impressive academic records." Again, I ask for documentation...
...that nearsighted view of progress, says Williams College's Sheafe Satterthwaite, lies the crux of the problem: American industrial architecture can be preserved only if the people's viewpoint is changed...
...with an indiscriminate cuteness. Two of the funniest sequences, the exchange of coincidences between a married couple not sure they are married and the fireman's ridiculous tale of "the Headcold," fall dead. In the latter case, the actor actually reads the speech, stifling the spontaneity that is the crux of the joke. Most of what does arouse the audience comes from the drooping mouth of W. Bruce Johnson, who looks like a young Walter Matthau and acts with a delicate understatement that generally works. But he alone cannot overcome the director's static imagination...