Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leonardo was supremely a man of infinite possibilities-so many that only a fraction of them were ever realized. He should have devoted himself to painting, say the painters. To engineering, say the engineers. To city planning, say the planners. To anatomy, say the anatomists. His drawings most completely preserve and record what he dreamed and was. His legacy, his inspiration and his exasperating, incomplete genius are all there...
...thirds that quantity. Don't attempt to substitute guesswork for arithmetic here, as a larger room will make students feel too important, and a smaller one may drive them away. At the first meeting, inform your overflow crowd that it will be possible to admit only a small fraction thereof; then ask each applicant to submit a brief autobiography plus a 25-word statement on the subject "Why I'm anxious to take this course...
...government withdrew its support a large fraction of the experimental research activities at this university would stop. Alternative support is simply unavailable. After the research activities had stopped, instruction would stagnate and degenerate. In the sciences, the university would be reduced to a college with a glorious past...
...logic, the principle of identity-that A is A, or a rose is a rose. In fact, argued Korzybski, the basic principle of life is not identity but, as the elliptical pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus put it, that all is change. Time and movement are inexorable, and in the fraction of a second that a rose is described it has already begun to alter...
...signed with Germany. It is no longer unusual to find a barber in Antibes or a salesgirl in Lyon who has visited the U.S. ?or anywhere else?as a tourist. Practically everyone, it seems, has made a summertime visit to the Spanish coast, where villas rent for a fraction of the price they command on the Riviera. Politics, which not so long ago determined whether fresh milk was available at the store, has become a subject of occasional levity. At Paris' Ca-veau de la République, a political cabaret near the Place de la République, performers last...