Word: interplay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pretty Whims. The destiny of the young republic, by Feuchtwanger's account, turned as much on the personal interplay between these characters as on General Washington or the Continental Congress. Without Beaumarchais' stubborn vanity and romantic ambition, the revolting colonies might not have armed the troops that forced the British surrender at Saratoga. Without that victory, Franklin's mission might have failed. Even with that victory, says Feuchtwanger, Franklin owed his success less to the wisdom of French policy than to a whim of Antoinette. It will probably be news to paid-up members of the D.A.R...
...feeding habits of fish are affected by the tides. (Fish, says Knight, like two square meals and two snacks a day.) The best solunar times vary with the longitude as well as the day, so Knight compiles different weekly tables for each of the newspapers. Each calculation involves the interplay of two forces-the sun's and the moon's gravitational pull-on a given spot on the earth's surface...
...alternative advisory systems, though substitutes of a sort, hardly can replace the interplay between student and faculty which tutorial's old Oxford-Cambridge-type individual instruction could extend. At present the only departmental criterion of a student's aptitude and interest in tutorial seems to be that of grades--usually by means of a line drawn at the bottom of Group III. But letter grades and receptivity do not always walk hand in hand. The invaluable aid which face-to-face instruction can provide, especially in the social studies, should warrant placing tutorial on a voluntary rather than an academic...
...with such extreme admiration. But they will certainly agree that in its ambitiousness and audacity, Under the Volcano makes the average novel look small and timid. It begins with a simple triangle (two brothers, one woman), around which Author Lowry constructs a huge and complicated interplay of struggle and emotion...
...raison d'etre of a legal order among men. What he discovered startled the juridical world of the early twentieth century. Law was not an end in itself for the sake of stability alone; nor was it a mere ordering of individual wills in the interplay of vicious competitive forces. The job of law was to harmonize conflicting interests in society through the force of an organized political structure. ". . . We may think of the task of the legal order," declared Pound, "as one of precluding friction and eliminating waste; of conserving the goods of existence in order to make them...