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...were producing new materials, machines, instruments, methods of measurement and computation. And no matter how well they did, they could be sure that they would soon be called on to do better. In his anxious assault on space, man has only begun to imagine how much effort he must expend, or how far that effort may take...
...tossed and scrambeld known quantities and academically-sanctioned categories, where Shakespeare talked of giving "local habitation" to "airy nothing," Mr. Gunn's landscapes, in his own words, lack "even potential meanings" and are modes of "convoking absences." His captains, like the painter in the first poem in the volume, expend their lives "resisting, by embracing, nothingness," until the night in which they are strangled by one of the "pudgy cheats" who are the objects of their passion, the models for their imagery...
Ending the Rumbles. Grillo argues that individual welfare organizations often do more harm than good in fighting blight; working independently of one another, they duplicate one another's efforts or, worse still, expend their energies in squabbles over welfare dollars. Grillo's solution is a master plan to coordinate the particular skills of each department and agency in a massive, sustained attack on Oakland's problems. "We've got to do everything at once,'' he says, "and in a coordinated...
...believe that students drop the class either because they feel that they have gained everything possible from it, or because they do not want to expend the effort to get up at 8 a.m. five days a week," he stated. "It is possible that some of the dropouts are dissatisfied with the course itself...
...dubious that a dubbed version of a film will, by some magical sort of magnetism, attract more patrons to the box office than a subtitled version. Furthermore, dubbing is a far more expensive proposition than subtitling. And many U.S. importing distributors would hesitate to expend the necessary money for dubbing some films on which they would be willing to gamble subtitling costs. The result would be that we should not be getting to see as many fine foreign imports as we now enjoy...