Word: fragmentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What we know is just the tiniest fragment," said a Wayne University professor of physics. "For the whole, we depend upon faith." Even the "law of chance" presupposes a law, argued an anthropologist. "Whose law? For me, I prefer the belief in a creator, divine, supernatural. I cannot accept chaos...
...cold, but Savitt was tagged as a comer, and ranked sixth. Last winter, Savitt went on a barnstorming trip to Australia.There he began to reach peak form, partly under the tutelage of Veteran Adrian Quist. Says Quist: "He was ceaselessly eager to learn and profited promptly from every fragment of advice." Savitt crowned his tour by winning the Australian Championship.* In the four-set final, Savitt whipped young (22) Ken McGregor, who had clinched the Davis Cup last fall...
...grew up in around Blooming Grove, was on the U.S.S. Hornet in Manila Bay in 1944 when an unreleased bomb on an incoming plane exploded. A fragment struck him in the head, injured the optic nerve, left him almost totally blind...
...Division, a farmer's son from backwoods Talulla, Miss. On November 26, near Hamhung, Sergeant Pittman volunteered to lead his squad in a counterattack against an enemy-held hill. The Chinese poured down mortar fire, burp guns began their deadly whinny. Pittman went down with a mortar-fragment wound, got up, pushed doggedly forward. A grenade landed in the midst of his squad.* Hero Pittman threw himself upon the missile, smothered the blast with his body. He left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl H. Dodd, 26, of Company E, 5th Infantry Regiment, a coal...
...Good Fool. Berg, who died at 50 in 1935, got the idea for Wozzeck in a "drama fragment" by the gifted but short-lived German playwright, Georg Büchner (1813-37). In the stormy aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and in a period of liberal revolutions, Büchner had written the tragedy of a clodlike Prussian soldier named Franz Wozzeck...