Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ultrasimplicity. U.S. physicists who have seen Heisenberg's equation still feel that it cannot quite explain all they see in their accelerators. Dr. John Grebe (rhymes with Hebe) begins with what they do see. A noted industrial researcher who was a leader in the wartime development of styrene for synthetic rubber, Grebe nevertheless has the same classical approach as Heisenberg. The secret of why the fundamental particles of matter somehow hold together in the atomic nucleus, he feels, must be less complicated than researchers believe. Reason: the rest of nature is "so beautiful and orderly and ultrasimple...
...Pound's classic comment on Tropic of Cancer: "At last, an unprintable book that is readable." Secret Agent Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate some mysterious goings-on on a neighboring island. His unknown foes promptly plant a six-inch venomous centipede in his bed ("Bond could feel it nuzzling at his skin. It was drinking! Drinking the beads of salt sweat!"). Bond gets to the small island, drops off to sleep only to awaken to the sight of a beautiful girl, nude but for a wide leather belt around her waist ("the belt made her nakedness extraordinarily...
Admit it: Class Day Exercises are one big nothing. Now in the past, it was another story. Then people could laugh spontaneously and horse around a bit; they could enjoy themselves, indulge in inanities, and afterwards feel no remorse...
With the exception of Winthrop, most House officials feel that the steam tables should be moved back into the kitchens. Such an arrangement would facilitate transportation of food from the kitchens to the cafeteria line, and would serve to enlarge the area of the halls for meals and dramatic and social events...
...their fathers" to another sect leaves no doubt that family determines sectarian allegiance. This is true of theologians and other religious leaders as well as of the unlettered. Yet, our young people, impressed by the reputation or position of a sectarian leader look upon him as an authority and feel a sense of security. The "authority" (bound by a childhood commitment) is in reality but the authority of the cradle. It is particularly effective with zealots and other emotionally immature persons...