Word: doubter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interviews, he proved for any doubter that behind the strange and medieval obscurities of his work, there was not a simulated intelligence but a wide and eccentric one, bent on its own course. He drenched himself in the horrors of Inquisitional Spain (one of his best plays is the one-act Escurial). He was a believer in the supernatural; he considered the human senses incomplete, and he was convinced that there are sounds, colors and perfumes that man has never experienced. "To the title of intellectual, which stinks, I prefer that of artisan," he said, "which has a good smell...
...Sorensen, the President's longtime administrative assistant and specialist in domestic politics and policies: up a lot as a dedicated doubter who will now be turning his doubts on State Department and Pentagon careermen...
...doubter persistently questioned their authenticity. "I was always suspicious of them stylistically," says Boston-born Harold Woodbury Parsons, 78, who, after graduating in science at Harvard, turned to art and spent most of his life buying European art for U.S. museums. "I sensed something wrong...
...Oakland center was born of disaster: on June 30, 1956 a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation and a United Air Lines DC-7 lumbered blindly into each other over the Grand Canyon, sent 128 passengers and crew members to their deaths, and convinced the last cost-conscious doubter that the nation's traffic control system was dangerously inadequate. As a direct result of the collision and others, Congress created the Federal Aviation Agency and this year provided $150 million to build a network of 26 new control centers. Of these, Oakland is the first...