Word: fourth
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...effecting national reconciliation and producing a "more far-reaching dialogue with the Assembly." The man best equipped to perform both chores seemed to be the handsome speaker of the Assembly, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, one of the major heroes of the World War II Resistance, who served under leftist Fourth Republic governments before joining the Gaullists...
...OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 6-7:30 p.m.). Third round of one of the year's major tournaments, from the Champions Golf Club in Houston. Fourth and final round Sunday...
...neurophysiologists now see it, when a man gets a shot of penicillin in the buttock, the stab sends an impulse along the nerve fibers to the fourth lumbar vertebra (see diagram). Then the impulse travels upward and soon crosses over to the opposite side of the spinal cord for its journey toward the brain. Along the way it triggers an automatic reflex that causes the man to flinch and tighten his gluteal muscle. After the impulse reaches the thalamus, a major (and evolutionally ancient) junction box at the base of the brain, where it is perceived as pain, it proceeds...
Other forms of self-commemoration do not appeal to Nelms. "I don't believe in education," he explained when college presidents tried to convince him that schools were nobler than booze. "I only went through the fourth grade myself-and I consider that the last year was wasted." When an opera group sought a subsidy, he said, "If you folks would just put on hillbilly shows, you could be self-supporting...
James wanted to be a successful playwright as passionately as some men long to climb Everest. Guy Domville's failure caused him very nearly to break down as a man, but it left him functioning as a writer. Or so Leon Edel asserts in this, the fourth volume of his projected five-book biography. James spent the next years writing himself out of shock-applying what Edel calls "imaginative self-therapy." Recounting a transitional period in James' creative life, Professor Edel has more recourse than necessary to Freud, but his book is otherwise as graceful and precise...