Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, Glimp and his staff have nightmares about a never-ending flow of applications. "We now get applications from more than 2,000 schools," he points out. "But there are 25,000 secondary schools in the country. If we got just one applicant from one-third of them...
...deepest aspiration of mankind recorded through the flow of history has always been a society and a condition under which the individual human person will find some expression for himself," Bohlen, father of a graduating senior, explained. The future "will require from you a greater flexibility and, in contrast, a greater attachment to the external verities if we are to survive," to preserve "the essential qualities of our civilization...
...bent like silvery glass. The larger pieces begin as metal sheets, painstakingly cut and hammered into shape. When De Rivera is satisfied with a sculpture, he files and polishes it until its surface, made as sensitive to light as possible, dances with reflections that make it seem to flow with life. The works are often shown on slowly revolving turntables...
...book advocates a return to some sort of dark, druidical pre-Christianity and the substitution of phallus worship for veneration of the Cross. Similarly. Miller in Cancer proposes a new world based on "the omphalos" (navel) as against an "abstract idea nailed to a cross." Despite the truly epic flow of obscene language, which becomes first dull and then comical, the book's real shock value is not moral but intellectual: what is baffling is not the sex but the snake oil it is cooked in. Cancer is not pornography in the usual sad style of that genre...
Stemming the Flow...