Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spelling Out the Rules. Heyns listened to all suggestions for new campus rules that would ensure a free flow of faculty and student opinion on any topic, however unpopular. Then he spelled out the rules clearly-and insisted that they be followed. He urged Oakland city officials to issue parade permits to students demonstrating against the Viet Nam war; but after the protesters erected a sign board larger than the rules permitted, he ordered it torn down. Similarly, Communist Bettina Aptheker, an F.S.M. leader, and two Vietnik friends last February held two rallies in a week on Sproul Hall steps...
...with Congressmen to tell her father), of Lady Bird's reaction ("It makes you feel you have been hit in the stomach with a hard rock"), of Lyndon's reaction ("We are having a sad time at the White House tonight"), and the tearjerking details continued to flow for days...
...appreciation. Pop itself, restricted to the sophisticated scavenger's delight, or the satirist's mocking image, has grown familiar and static. Op and kinetic art, like that of Le Fare's, are less human because they are less dependent on whim and whimsy. In the ephemeral flow of contemporary styles, this art chitters and clatters on ahead like a mechanical rabbit with transistorized circuits...
This seems like meager stuff to spin out to book length, and indeed readers who like excitement, suspense, significance, and action will be disappointed. Author Williams' gifts lie in other directions. Her words flow with the great simplicity of someone unaware of an audience, or indifferent to its presence. Her mind remembers those shaded places where life beats at a cooler pulse, and she summons with utter fidelity the simple people who live in the shade. Powder Man is a small triumph, and a kind of spell...
...Presidents today. The Greeks supplied one name, arthritis (from arthron, joint, and itis, inflammation), but most victims of so-called arthritic conditions, like Ike, have little or no inflammation. More recent and precise terms are arthrosis and osteoarthrosis. Medieval physicians adopted another Greek term, rheumatikos (from rheuma, flow), because they thought the conditions resulted from a flow of noxious "humors" (fluids) into the joints...