Word: diverter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject-matter, to content rather than form, to purposes rather than techniques. Just as the subject of Bradstreet, in the deepest sense, is Bradstreet, the Dream Songs are "about" Henry by God, and if Berryman's public descriptions of Henry are cagey, he is no more willing to divert the audience with coy adversions to his own skills or state of mind. For a long time poetry in this country has been working with an arsenal of familiar tools--"effects," "devices" and "meanings"--all largely technical considerations. Such a situation has often led to the spectacle of hordes of young...
...make the ultimate difference in his decision. Whenever possible, most pilots prefer to make landings according to visual (fair weather) flight rules, instead of instrument approaches that take more time and cost more in fuel. Circling in a fog over Tokyo in March, a Canadian Pacific pilot decided to divert his flight to Taipei; he changed his mind when he heard a better weather reading from the Tokyo tower and tried a visual approach. The crash killed...
...President's most surprising, if scarcely most meaningful, proposal was his foursquare declaration in favor of a four-year term for Representatives. The present two-year term, said Johnson, caused Congressmen to "divert enormous energies to an almost constant process of campaigning." Although House members met his recommendations with a rousing cheer, there will be much debate about it in weeks to come. For one thing, Johnson's plan would bring all 435 House members up for election in the same year as the President-thus effectively canceling off-year judgments by the voters, who have frequently displayed...
...season when paintings have grown large enough to require flatcars for easels, and brushstrokes have turned into mighty walls of color bright enough to divert low-flying aircraft, a Lilliputian touch is welcome. Such is the mark of Italy's Gianfranco Baruchello, 41, whose works seem painted with a brush one millimeter wide to produce meticulous yet mysterious images that float across glossy white panels like microbes creeping from an infested imagination...
...actually has mixed feelings about the proposed tutoring projects. Although it would like to staff the programs, some PBH members have double about finding the necessary 150 additional tutors. PBH does not want to divert manpower from established programs...