Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he speaks, he seems to be in agony of intensity. First his fist presses the table until he almost puts his entire weight on it; later his fingers grasp air with tenseness and tautness--early with violence. These mannerisms aren't superficial. They come out of a terrific absorption in ideas. They come out of an effort to express those ideas clearly, completely, and precisely. And Hartz is so successful in this effort that his audience laughs, not because what he says is funny, but because it is so perfectly right. The laughter comes form aesthetic satisfaction...
...rest are the mirror of the polite divorces and the manifold cultured adulteries of Park Avenue: they are God's commentary on the whole of our society. "Harlem is, in a sense, what God thinks of Hollywood. And Hollywood is all Harlem has, in its despair, to grasp at, by way of a surrogate for heaven...
...seemed to have the presidency so surely within his grasp, only to have it elude him. With his own hand, he wrote out the telegram to Truman: "My heartiest congratulations ... I urge all Americans to unite behind you in support of every effort to keep our nation strong and free...
Oppie's apprentices also acquired something of his intolerance for shoddy and fuzzy thinking, his intuitive grasp of difficulties, his mathematical precision of speech. Eventually, Oppenheimer products made their debuts on lecture platforms and in seminars all over the U.S.: Harvard's Schwinger, California's Serber, CalTech's Christy, Stanford's Schiff, Columbia's Lamb, Iowa State's Carlson, Illinois' Nordsieck, Washington's Uehling. (Brother Frank, the original Oppie apprentice, is now a physicist at the University of Minnesota.) Says Nobel Prizewinner Robert Millikan: "Oppenheimer developed at Berkeley an outstanding school...
...weakness, the men without arms, was there all the time. Princeton backs John Weber, Val Wagner, and George Sella consistently slipped out of the grasp of potential tacklers to pick up unearned yardage. Take away center-backerup Bill Hickey and it easily might have been a walk-away for the Tigers at the half-time...