Word: hectoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What a Man May Feel. What lessons do the great creators teach? The imitation of greatness and the intimation of immortality, answers Eliot, echoing thinkers from Goethe to Carlyle and Nietzsche. "Was not Homer a greater hero than Hector?" he asks. "He was a hero born not to slaughter other heroes but to create them, and to give them immortality. His created heroes show the astonishing size of what a man may feel and do. Thus they create new heroes in life...
...manufactured back in 1860. And yet that ancient rocker, tendriled like a vine from the wine-heavy hills around Vienna, had a brisk, bald-bottomed rival in Charles Eames's up-to-the-minute en try in molded Fiberglas and wire. An art nouveau desk (circa 1903) by Hector Guimard that looked as sinuous as weeds under water held its place against a rigorously rectilinear chair by Le Corbusier...
...Hector & Honey...
...John Fox discovered that New England livestock could not survive the Middle East climate [July 7]? The Israeli government imported a Holstein bull (Whirlhill Hector) from our farm some time ago to improve their fine Holstein herds. All reports indicate that Hector and his daughters are thriving in the Biblical land of milk and honey...
Hearts have been transplanted from one dog to another and have taken over the job of pumping the recipient animal's blood, reported Dr. Watts R. Webb, who worked on the project with Dr. Hector S. Howard at the University of Mississippi. The heart alone would be too difficult to move, said Dr. Webb, because of the many blood-vessel connections to the lungs. So his team tried transplanting the heart in combination with both lungs, and then with the left lung only...