Word: indirectness
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Russians pay enormous taxes (hidden indirect sales taxes average 350%). In exchange they get an all-pervasive police system whose members are far better fed and clothed than the people themselves; medical care which is dubious by American standards (Welles came across Russian doctors whose cold remedy was mustard powder sprinkled in the patient's socks); and an education which takes 76% of all Russian children no farther than the fourth grade. Writes Welles: "The Kremlin . . . culls out the best children to form the elite governing class ... It makes workers of the rejects...
...wars. Rubbish, said Miss Geweke. There was adventure and glamor in the Aeneid ("It contains an exciting love affair"). It was a masterpiece, "the most balanced work in all Latin literature." And it was certainly no harder than Caesar, with his long, closely knit sentences, his use of subjunctives, indirect discourse and the historical present. The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (she is chairman of its educational policies committee) backed her up, and the American Council of Learned Societies gave her $7,500 to prove her point...
...passion for neatness (never a stray paper on his desk) and precision (each morning he receives four fresh pencils sharpened to exactly the same length). He dislikes the telephone, which he keeps concealed in a desk drawer, but likes gadgets. His favorite: a system for dimming and increasing the indirect lighting in the governor's office. He never gets excited in public...
...sure sign of spring when passing humanitarians plunge into the Charles after foundering dogs. Walter Gindele and his son did just this, from an indirect approach, yesterday when they walked over the thin-iced river in front of Dunster House to save an Irish Setter and a mongrel pup who had fallen through the crust...
...awkwardness and obscurity of much of its style, the detailed technical discussions of which it is full, the abstractness of many of its issues, will prevent "Process and Reality" from over directly affecting more than a small number of industrious and independent thinkers. But its indirect effect has been and will continue to be enormous, it should forever remain, a landmark in the history of the intellect, a perpetual source of fundamental ideas, a monument in metaphysics, cosmology and theology, a watershed separating off twentieth century from nineteenth century thought...