Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroit oral surgeon may have found a better way. At a meeting of the American Society of Oral Surgeons in Las Vegas tins week, Dr. Irwin A. Small of Sinai Hospital of Detroit reported that he has developed an implantable device that provides a firm and almost instant anchor for dentures, even if the bone is worn fairly tinn...
...growing awareness of the fierce Greek sun figures in his Three Secret Poems of 1969. Its singularity is a mystery he often probed in the diary. Consonant with that sun's pure shaft of light he perceived a terrifying black that seemed to trifle with life, as the deathly instant of blindness when you emerge from the sea in summer or the shock of an animal's eyes lit by the headlights on a car, before it is dark again...
...first slowly and then faster until, at the end of 1973, American women were having only 1.9 children each,* an insufficient number to replace the present population. (To do that, each woman in the U.S. would have to have an average of 2.11 children.) This does not mean instant Z.P.G. Although young parents are not having enough babies to replace themselves, there are still more births than deaths in any given year (3.1 million births v. 2 million deaths in 1973). Unless the number of deaths increases drastically because of some catastrophe, the birth rate must stay down...
...been beneficent (schools, hospitals, mass transit, antipollution facilities), but some has been dubious (his massive $1 billion concrete and marble Albany mall, which will rehouse much of the state government when it is completed hi 1975-five years late). To critics of the mall, who have labeled it "instant Stonehenge," Rocky replies: "Mean structures breed small vision...
...together, an ideal candidate for a scholarship to Yale (class of 1958), and that's what he got. In New Haven the poor, bright, pint-sized Midwesterner felt left out, though his classmates were dazzled by his ability to make instant anagrams out of any name that was mentioned ("Alec Guinness" became "genuine class"). Along with French and German, he acquired a great many cultural tag lines and thriftily squirreled them away in the back of his mind for future use. Cavett is certainly the only comedian extant who could say, "Where did we get this obsession that exegesis...