Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distant planet, inhabited by men far more scientifically advanced than earth, has done away with war. Now that the earthmen have rocket power almost within their grasp, the space people are afraid that aggression will spread to other hemispheres. They send an envoy on a mission to rid the earth of war, but people have become so imbued with a distrust towards anything that will bring about real peace, that the envoy has to take drastic measures and is almost destroyed in the process...
...latter half of the book. Williams occasionally discusses modern poetry on a plane too advanced for the shoddily prepped reader. But this is only occasional. Most of the book is well within any literati's grasp. In fact by the time the 349th page is finished, the Autobiography of William Carlos Williams constitutes a useful and very easy to digest primer in one school of modern American literature...
According to experts, here is the procedure; grasp your watch or clock firmly in your left hand; secure an equally tenacious grip on the hour pointer of your instrument with your right; turn the pointer a full circle counterclockwise; put the clock down; return to the business of the moment...
...specialization that is required for successful operation as a college professor is often deadening to the mind that would grasp for higher culture in the modern world. There now is, as White-head has indicated, a celibacy of the intellect...
...matter of fact that we have learned to count. Anybody can make figures, but since archaeologists, historians, scientists, physicists have poured numerals and numerals across us, this generation does not theoretically think in large numbers. The power of the mind to grasp ever larger quantities of units is a thing which the young have and we in middle age still do not have and really cannot have to the same degree. And one thing that follows from that is that they realize this mutipliciy of the souls that have lived and the presumable billions and billions yet to live...