Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less than 25 years ago, as all of their elders remember and some of the young never heard, some of the most eminent of U.S. writers and a great gaggle of lesser literary geese were more than half in love with Communism. It is all over now, but the Fund...
While Moreau's centaurs, sphinxes and Cyclopes are conventional symbols, Redon created monsters seen only by himself. Eyes float like balloons, ears become wings, strange plants sprout out of human heads. Fantasy, said Redon, is "the messenger of the 'unconscious,' of the eminent and mysterious personage . . . who...
The Victorians everywhere moved between the illimitable and the unmentionable, their arms outstretched toward vast new horizons, their eyes averted from the simplest barnyard facts. Theirs was the pre-eminent age of the railway, the morning newspaper, the club, the waltz, and eventually the tea party. But it was the...
Levitation, until now just a cartoonist's gag, a magician's stunt or a children's trick, gained medical respectability last week with the publication of "the case of the flying pig" in The Lancet, most eminent of medical journals.
The title of the address at the University of Virginia had a ring of scientific heresy: "Heritance of Acquired Characteristics." Yet the speaker was an eminent researcher. Dr. Frank L. Horsfall Jr., director of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute. What he did, pulling together recent research from a number...