Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brunch at Lowell House started off in the soon-to-be-typical style. Adrian and Louise sat down at one of the short rectangle tables and were immediately surrounded with eager-looking upper classmen running back and forth fetching more orange juice, scrambled eggs and coffee for Louise. No matter how much she ate, however, Louise always managed to keep up a running conversation with all the surrounding males. And she was interested or at least feigned interest in any personal details the male population had to divulge about themselves: law school, plans for next year, what courses they were...
...BUDGETEERING. I am involved as an adviser. I do not try to take a functional role. Usually ten or twelve policy questions have to be answered before you can come forth with numbers. Do you have a B-l bomber or don't you? Do you have an additional aircraft carrier or don't you? What I will do is go through this stuff and then suggest to the President what I think ought to be done...
There was. They were the recorded history of his most consuming and urgent adult endeavor up until he ran for President. From the profit column Carter got the message that he could go forth to serve the country. The experience is about as old as being a born-again Christian, though perhaps not so lofty. But it makes no more sense to try to purge Carter's soul of the free-enterprise spirit than to try to sway him from his religious convictions...
...sustained himself too by a great feat of memory-writing The Mediterranean, filling up and mailing out one schoolboy copybook after another. "I had to believe that history, destiny, was written at a much more profound level," recalls Braudel of those years. "So it was that I consciously set forth in search of a historical language in order to present unchanging, or at least very slowly changing conditions which stubbornly assert themselves over and over again...
...giant heads began to make him a reputation in New York City, Close has been known for one thing: a relentless inspection of the surface of the human face, recorded at immensely magnified scale, not only "warts and all" but with every pore of every wart meticulously set forth. Large and legible though they are, Close's portraits illustrate a paradox: although faces are the most recognizable and memorable objects in the world, neither artists nor perceptual psychologists yet know for sure why we recognize them, or what makes a given face familiar. In the street, one scans...