Word: detective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them appear in almost every work. But how, may I ask, is this to be distinguished, at the college level, from "creative art"? Isn't it taken for granted that no young author can escape imitation? And if he could, could it be of itself desirable? If we cannot detect an influence in a writer's early work, we can be sure we have detected an overwhelming ignorance, or a native insensitivity, or both; and if this is universally true, how much more true of the writer at Harvard, with its ever-insistent past...
...hope that its pursuits would be mainly peaceful. Yet some scientists were already warning that the U.S. atomic monopoly could not long be maintained, that the Russians were making progress. A far-sighted AEC commissioner. Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss, argued for a high-altitude patrol and seismographic network to detect Russian atomic explosions when and if they came. But AEC's idealistic first chairman, David Lilienthal, decided it was not needed. Finally, aroused by Strauss, the Pentagon picked up the tab, got AEC to furnish the technical knowledge to set up a rudimentary...
...will sign no treaty renouncing nuclear testing unless inspectors can actually go inside the Soviet Union to discourage cheating. The Kremlin replies that foreigners will never be allowed to prowl around Russian territory. Andrei Gromyko's argument: inspection is unnecessary because the West has modern instruments that can detect blasts thousands of miles away...
...there are some kinds of underground and small atmospheric explosions that even this elaborate network cannot detect with certainty. Last autumn, observation posts in Sweden and France confused a small Russian test blast with the Soviets' long-awaited 58-megaton shot simply because it took place simultaneously with an earthquake in California. Recent underground tests in Nevada confirmed that earthquake confusion is possible unless seismographs are within a few hundred miles of the site. Hence the Krishna Menon plan presented at Geneva urging monitors in neutral nations near Russia would change nothing. To be above suspicion, any nuclear power...
...Krok adaptation of The Twist is constructed on a New Havenish ground (one can detect an "Arf" in the midst of the rock growls); but, though one suspects that the lyrics owe their inspiration to the recent carolings of the Lampoon Tabernacle Choir, the noise is usually sufficient to distract attention from them--and the noise is thumping good...