Word: dis
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...union was forged at a convention (Philadelphia, 1787), divided against itself at another (Montgomery, Ala., 1861), reunited at a rather intimate one (Appomattox Courthouse, 1865) and renewed quadriennially. Long before Sinclair Lewis chronicled the fictional convention high jinks of George F. Babbitt, boobus Americanus and prototypical conventioneer, other observers dis covered our penchant for gatherings. "As soon as several Americans have conceived a sentiment or an idea that they want to produce before the world, they seek each other out, and when found, they unite," observed Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. Editorialized the Nation in 1865: "If the Englishman...
From Van Gogh to Francis Bacon, the unease of some artists could reach such obsessive dimensions that it transcends mere dis play and becomes exemplary. In modern art, the father of anxiety was a Norwegian, Edvard Munch...
...inevitable result was the summer of double-digit dis content, followed by Stage II. Announcing it, Carter conceded that the tom-toms reverberating from the Oval Office in the past had signaled anything but a determined anti-inflationary policy. The regulators who he now suggests are out of control are Carter appointees. The budget that he says is too big is a Carter budget. But the good news is that the President pro fesses at last to recognize the problems and to have learned from past misjudgments...
...most part, the anal-retentives have learned to control their product pretty well and so they throw this Kansas-Eagles spaceshit in my face and tell me to mellow out and "get into it," or dis-co-here-dis-co-there tell me to dance, and they even tell me how to dance. Too many commercial smiles in 1978, not enough clenched teeth and sweating brows...
...because gravity is so weak at long range, detecting its waves, says Harvard's Smarr, is "like measuring fluctuations in the dis tance between the earth and sun equal to the diameter of a human hair." So far no one has been able to accomplish that feat. But investigators in the U.S. and abroad are hoping to succeed with a new generation of extremely sensitive gravity detectors that rely on lasers, devices using superchilled metals and other advanced gadgetry...