Word: fleetingness
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¶ Imre Nagy, the 61-year-old Communist who served as Premier during the nation's five fleeting days of freedom. Kadar himself had fought Stalinists in his Cabinet trying to prevent the trial. He did not want to risk stirring fresh hostility to his despised regime, was also...
The dream of the television pitchman is wondrously simple: to get painlessly but surely inside the viewer's head. To make the dream come true, two young companies are peddling "subliminal perception," the psychological phenomenon whereby a sight too fleeting to register consciously takes root subtly in the viewer...
Where Massachusetts Avenue meets Mount Auburn Street there are several stores. There is nothing very remarkable about this location, which is somewhere between Harry's Arcade and Hyman Pill's hardware store. That is, there is nothing remarkable about it at the present time. For but a few short months...
"Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love," wrote the Aga Khan in his autobiography three years ago, "that time for me has fled on too swift a wing." Last week swift-winged time came to an end for...
The slabs of limestone and alabaster that were still partly white when they were excavated are now, almost three millenniums after their original installation, the color of old ivory. Permitting fleeting glimpses of a completely vanished civilization, the sculptured stones show the King and his attendants at religious ceremonies. On...