Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crooks is a man who seems the tiniest fraction of a beat out of synch with Harvard, a man who describes himself as "sort of on the edge" of things here, as "not quite in the main stream...
...quite so perfect. Crooks is a man who seems the tiniest fraction of a beat out of synch with Harvard, a man who describes himself as "sort of on the edge" of things here, as "not quite in the main stream." He is director of a substantial fiefdom--but one very much apart from the rest of Harvard in time and in its basic assumptions and standards. He was a House master--but of the non-resident, catch all House. He graduated from Harvard, gaining a bona fide Ivy League background--but at the age of 31. And the particular...
...Consequently, in the process of national reconstruction after the war, nationalist politicians sought to project an image of a heroic France united behind de Gaulle and the Resistance Ophuls attempted to show that this image was a self-serving myth, since the Resistance never comprised more than a tiny fraction of the population, which for the most part collaborated actively or passively with the Vichy government and the Germans. Ophuls's interviews with survivors revealed a shocking absence of moral sensibility, even in retrospect. The most egregious instance was the case of a man incapable of understanding what was wrong...
Good times. For despite the season's financial success, nothing basic has changed. There is no way to increase the productivity of live performances, nor is there any way theater can compete for any more than a fraction of the huge audiences enjoyed by TV and movies...
...said he used calculus without ever having learned about it," the filial, but still skeptical, grandson explains carefully. (Norris is engaged in finishing all his own roast beef and a fraction of his identical twin's sentences.) "It is a difficult thing to check, isn't it? But he was a clever man--an astronomy buff, used to have the whole family up to look at the planets." Ross goes on to the next subject. When unquestionable authority is lacking, even compilers of record books make do with circumstantial evidence...