Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Piety. Unabashedly, Ransom describes a lyric poem as "an act of rapturous piety; a homage to human nature despite its hateful and treacherous tendencies." Dry, knit-browed New Critics, trying to justify their unexpected fondness for such a man, are often as unsuccessful as connoisseurs trying to convey the exact flavor of a vintage wine. One thing that especially endears the poet to his colleagues, however, is his fashionable fondness for antinomies -his perception that life is lived in impossible tension between unresolvable opposites. Ransom heroines die of "six spells of fever and six of burning." They have only...
...sales sagged after Sears, in 1957, brought out an identical pole lamp that sold for about half the price; the company took the matter to court. A federal court found Sears guilty of unfair competition, not because of a patent infringement but under an Illinois common law that forbids exact copying of another's goods. In fact, ruled the court, Stiffel's pole lamp was not really unique enough to be protected by patent at all; it then invalidated Stiffel's patent...
...Supreme Court went a step farther. It affirmed the lower court's in validation of Stiffel's patent, but ruled that Sears was erroneously blamed for unfair competition. Its reasoning: once the patent on a product no longer exists, anyone has the right to make an exact copy-and should not be restrained from doing so by state unfair-competition laws. The court thus overruled all the states' protective laws, except against outright fraud, and declared open season on any products not protected by patents or trade names. Consumer groups hailed the ruling as heralding lower prices...
Watson said the Faculty Committee agreed in principle with the HCUA resolution, but it might change the exact wording somewhat...
...General de Gaulle, from the time of he Casablanca Conference in 1943, lost all interest in the war and, calculating hat victory was certain, "concentrated upon restoring France as a great power." He shared with Stalin the knowledge that he could "exact greater concessions in the midst of total...