Word: haphazards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arteries in the Mountain. Kay's The Instant was more ambitious: a picture of a mountain sliced down the center and partially draped with napkins. The cross section showed a mass of wires, entrails, arteries and porcelain eyes supported on a haphazard wooden scaffolding. "I can't tell you what it would mean to most people," Kay says, "but I do know what it means to me. It's a sort of showing what's inside-things half mechanical, half alive. The mountain itself can represent almost anything-a human being, life, the world, any fundamental...
Means of informing and advising prospective students on financial problems already exist, but only in haphazard fashion, the Provost feels. Under the new program, better information will be available and it will be more systematically provided throughout the nation. Details will be studied and worked...
...Scientists are convinced that a hydrogen reaction will not spread through the scarce hydrogen in the atmosphere or the plentiful hydrogen in the ocean. To explode at all, a hydrogen bomb must have just the right ingredients, and seawater is a haphazard collection of many elements. Even a few scientists, however, will feel slightly nervous if the first test bomb is exploded at Eniwetok, so near the Pacific Ocean's hydrogen...
Wallis' life turns out to have been not so much a web of calculated evil as of thoughtlessness and stupidity. He was always at odds with his conventional father, almost from the first had too much money. In purgatory, what seems to bother him most is his haphazard sex life and the scars it left on him and on his women. One by one they are brought before him and Wallis realizes that through his earthly life he was incapable of real love, behaved badly with wife and mistresses alike...
...choosing for itself, is the main cause of the extraordinary situation by which talent [in America] is less capable of supporting itself for what it is, and to do what it wants to do, than in most European countries." Critic Spender might also have noted that the kind of haphazard judgment displayed fore & aft of his essay is a questionable boon either to serious literary innovators or their determined handful of readers...