Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patiently stalking U.S. science and industry to find poor little superman in a hundred compromising poses. The total provides dazzling new evidence for old-world prejudices about the U.S.-prejudices which most European novelists are content to confirm with a trip to Wall Street, the Bowery, the Deep South and Hollywood. Jungk found other hunting grounds...
...Crooked Atoms. The result, contained in a series of brilliant pamphlets, was to make coherent policy out of the deep distrust which Tories felt for the new Socialism. Rab replanted the sturdy old roots of Toryism in modern soil. The guiding principles of his philosophy were 1) a belief in the divine origin of the human personality, and 2) a faith in Christian ethics. Rab denied the cynical Marxist view of British history as the selfish struggle of classes; he saw it as a long odyssey of the individual toward the fullest expression of himself, in which each tradition...
...plume of smoke rises, and three French planes make successive dives at a field while a fourth circles overhead, spotting. Have they sighted the Viet Minh who made the ambush on this road, or another band? Just a few hundred yards from the flaming truck, coolies are working knee-deep in the mud as if nothing has happened, never looking up from under their straw hats. Are some or all or none of them Viet Minh? Have they guilty knowledge? Who knows...
...match its huge size. In places it looks as vital as a plunge of lightning-or at least as the stormy "N" of Napoleon's signature. Those who find exhilaration in fast driving at night might well warm to the picture, for it creates a sense of deep black space shot through with gleams, glares, flashes and slow beams of light. The blood-red tangle at the center, brilliantly meshed with the whites, is like a single note of ferocity which saves the whole from coldness...
...grubber that tears up trees and underbrush, grinds them up, then works the mulch deep into the earth behind it with a disk harrow...