Word: heights
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...short cut, a gadget of knowledge. But it was also more. The very invention of the newsmagazine?with its orderly rubrics, its organization of information?symbolized the conviction that people could grasp the world and make sense of it. TIME was didactic. Parentheses were filled with statistics about height, weight, area, population. "Learned footnotes" sprouted at the bottoms of pages. But at the start, articles were short, often mere "items," snippets and extracts from other publications. Brevity and simplification were the goals. These became increasingly difficult to achieve. The past 60 years have seen an almost continuous explosion of knowledge?...
...told some of his sky adventures to the aeronautically alert New York Times for syndication: "Shortly after leaving Newfoundland, I began to see icebergs. . . . Within an hour it became dark. Then I struck clouds and decided to try to get over them. For a while I succeeded at a height of 10,000 feet. I flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy at all. I felt just as if I was driving a motor car over a smooth road, only it was easier. Then it began to get light...
...scenes set in the early 1970's, at the height of anti-war activism, underline the contrasts between the society of Daniel's young adulthood, and that of his parents: the political faith of both the Isaacsons and the society which condemned them is lost to a cynical distrust of political institutions and ideologies. The change is reflected in Daniel's contrast with his sister. Susan (Amanda Plummer), who inherits her parents political faith, actively parties panting in the anti-war movement while Daniel is a politically apathetic graduate student. The intensity of Susan's involvement in politics eventually leads...
Miller, however, takes his case beyond a justification of his right to appear on television, explaining his work in terms of duty and responsibility. "My primary motivation is that I'm an educator," he says. "If this is the greatest law school faculty, then it's the height of arrogance to say that we can only teach the fortunate few at Harvard. I hope to demystify and humanize the law for thousands who are ignorant of it. Even "The People's Court" is better than "Kojak...
...informed source wins is not involved in the race said yesterday that Kearney campaign organization is better than that of Mayor White "at his height,? The source who asked not to be identified, added that Kearney was the only local politics who was able to provide campaign workers last year for the election bids of Governor Michael S. Dukakis and Congressman Barney Prank `61 (D-Mass...