Word: effortlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fully insulated, and almost every partition is a floor-to-ceiling storage wall. Doorways are 36 in. wide to permit easy passage of wheelchairs, wall plugs are 2 ft. off the floor to minimize stooping, light switches are at fingertip height, about 30 in. off the floor for effortless flipping by an arthritic...
Learning so relentlessly nonphonetic a language as English will never become effortless, and Words in Color may be overrated by some of its spectacular early successes. Yet for its nappy discovery that symbolic color sticks in an illiterate's brain quicker than a shape, and its basic expansion of the alphabet (from 26 letters to 47 colors) to match the language's sounds, it gives promise of turning into an educational hit (light blue, pink, magenta...
Literary Caddies. Palmer commands the added income with the effortless grace that goes into a good tee shot. An editor of Golf Digest-one of the many magazines that also buy prose from the pros-writes Palmer's copy; the line drawings illustrating the text are traced from photographs taken of Palmer in Pittsburgh in 1959. About the only editorial control that Sam Snead exerts over his column, which has been running since 1940, is to insist that he be shown wearing that familiar Snead trademark, the porkpie straw...
Only the poets give Fiedler a little hope and the reader some respite. In four effortless, brilliant final chapters, Fiedler charts the continuities of U.S. poetry over the past century, demonstrates how the poets of the past decade have brought the healthy "reappearance of Walt Whitman as a considerable force in our poetry, as well as the rejection of the objectivity and the metaphysical-symboliste tradition sponsored by T. S. Eliot." Ironically, some of these poets are the very beatniks whose novels most disturb him. Yet they have at least got poetry out of the classroom and "into...
...heavyweight varsity's impressive and seemingly effortless victory prompted Penn's coach Joe Burk to speculate that Harvard has the best boat in the East. But that was before Yale upset Cornell in an even faster time of 5:53, a new American record...