Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong more clearly, so as to provide a better moral support, and to focus the feeling of sacredness on fitter objects, instead of worshiping supernatural rulers. It will sanctify the higher manifestations of human nature in art and love, in intellectual comprehension and aspiring adoration, and will emphasize the fuller realization of life's possibilities as a sacred trust...
...Nature," says Buckminster Fuller, "always builds the most economic structures." With his geodesic dome now in wide use (e.g., at the U.S. exhibition in Moscow last summer), Bucky Fuller has delved into the geometry that underlies nature's structures from the atom to the planetary system, to produce two more pioneering ideas. Last week they were on view in the floodlighted garden of Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Morten Lund, staff writer for S.I. and one of Fuller's students, reported the professor's remarks to the magazine, and the spirited controversy ensured...
...Fuller likened the act of making close pitches look like strikes to a lawyer's advocacy--the catcher is simply "presenting a persuasive argument." But, he contended, a football player pretending to be hurt is committing a moral wrong, and engaging in "true deception...
Quoting as his authority "George (Specs) Torporcer, Baseball--From Back Yard to Big League, 1954, pages 55-57," Fuller repiled that there are "sound reasons (having nothing to do with deceiving the umpire)" for bringing a ball into the strike zone...