Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pineau's vision of Eurafrica did nothing to dampen the perfervid anticolonialism of the Arab-Asian countries. "The reputation of France at the present time," growled Syria's Delegate Farid Zeineddine, "is at its lowest ebb." Then, accusing the French of everything from cowardice to genocide, 18 Arab-Asian nations proposed just what France most dreaded: a resolution demanding that the people of Algeria be granted "their fundamental right of self-determination...
...censorship clause in the Club's constitution was completely removed shortly after World War II, at about the time when the Club was at the lowest ebb in its history. The decade of university apathy set had started the early '40's, and with the founding of a rival veterans' theater group--which later became the Harvard Theater Group--after the war, the Dramatic Club found itself unable to recover until the rival organization closed down in 1953 and turned its resources over to the HDC. Neil Smith, a former member of the Theater Group, became the president...
...editorial page: "The editorial pages of New York papers, except possibly that of the New York Times, have hit the lowest ebb in all history." He thought that the Chicago Tribune and St. Louis Post-Dispatch were still going strong, but noted a slump in the Baltimore Sun's editorial vigor...
...last week's National Electronics Conference at Chicago, Schafer discussed recent improvements in scientific knowledge and control of the brain. After all, he pointed out, the brain is a digital computer whose functioning can be profoundly affected by electrical influences. The electroencephalograph (brainwave detector) shows electrical signals that ebb and flow in the brain. Perhaps these signals can be simulated, controlling the brain's sensations and thoughts...
...abstraction, Wights painted ideas ripple out to include what he calls "the transitoriness lite. Now we're here, now we're not." Says he: "I suppose that I would have been a good transcendentalist 100 years ago." He often paints water, finding in its unresting ebb and flow an almost obsessive symbol for the tides of time. On occasion, as in his stormy Clock (see cut) time, tide and the implied threat of shipwreck build together into a powerful unity. At other times he uses a huge winter-stripped, decaying tree to suggest the fact that even...