Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Electric's new $4 million, 30,000-kw. reactor is the latest step in U.S. industry's epic struggle to harness the atom for peacetime use. Already, the atom is a wonderful servant in many areas of U.S. life. Radioactive isotopes last year saved U.S. industry an estimated $500 million. More than 90% of all tire fabrics and 80% of all tin cans are tested with radioactive thickness gauges. Radioisotopes control quality in cigarettes, find leaks in pipelines, determine wear in metals. In more than 1,700 U.S. hospitals, radiation is used to diagnose disease, treat cancer...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar. With Apollonian clarity and Dionysian passion, Greece's late, famed man of letters challenges Homer with a sequel that is a modern epic of adventure, eroticism, and the universal quest for self-knowledge...
...present, there are five Humanities courses offered, ranging from "Epic and Novel" to "Uses of the Comic Spirit." Two of these are limited in enrollment to 200 students...
...dominated by the man who was not there. According to a terse speech, prepared weeks ago, by Anders Osterling, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Boris Pasternak was chosen because of his "important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition. Mr. Pasternak informed us that he does not wish to accept the prize. In view of these circumstances the Academy can only express its regrets...
...funds with the interest from its investments and had an outside company administer this fund as a loan program, the government could be avoided. But there are other problems. The bookkeeping alone for such a program, keeping track of thousands of thirty and forty year loans, would be of epic size. A great quasi-Social Securities office would have to be set up, and with an inevitable upward rise of secretary salaries and of business equipment, the plan could cost more than it's worth...