Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stuff inside is Kazin's, of course; and a lot of the editing it needs should have been done at Kazin's desk. Far too many of these pieces read like first drafts; they contain only preliminary thought, the superstructure of an essay, which should largely disappear from the finished product. One comes upon the final few sentences of an essay with something of a shock: "What? That...
...customers almost always leave the shop restyled. Parts disappear or shift sides; the hair may be shorter, the sides fuller. For this attention Sebring gets $15 for the first visit, $10 subsequently...
...itself realism, whose adherents proclaimed their intent to describe the world as it really was. The prudes dealt easily enough with the mountain; it became, and still remains. Camel's Hump. They had more trouble with the literary movement. For decades it was a standoff; realism did not disappear, but neither were the early realists (themselves nearly as prudish as their critics) able to keep their promise and describe the world...
...freed for a more active role in the world* and, De Gaulle implied, for the task of constitutional reform that would make a strong executive a permanent feature of French life. As for the "last bloody clouds" caused by the terrorism of the Secret Army Organization, they would soon disappear, together with the S.A.O. strategy of "assassination, theft and blackmail." Frenchmen, sickened by the seven-year war in Algeria and by the S.A.O.'s senseless brutality, could only hope that De Gaulle was right-even though the "bloody clouds" appeared to last longer than many political weather forecasters...
...high enough to have a direct effect on the lower levels of the Van Allen belt. AEC scientists think it will create a "magnetic bubble" hundreds of miles in diameter that will distort the lines of force of the earth's magnetic field. The bubble will probably disappear after 30 to 40 minutes, but while it lasts, it will be an obstacle to the free movement of particles in the radiation belt. Some of them will detour around it and continue on their way. Others, diverted downward, will be caught by the earth's atmosphere. But AEC scientists...