Word: inventiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that somehow sound best in the snow outside somebody's front door at night; the tinkling bells on the live sheep in the village créche, and the clink of coins in the kettles set up for the poor; the thousand different squeals of joy that children invent...
...cosmologies have, by definition, their own sets of laws, and if one is to play the game of those who invent them on their own terms, one must be certain of exactly what these laws are. Here lies Wolfson's most irritating weakness, for he leaves his audience wondering about an enormous number of embarrassing technical matters. Why, after all, should lost souls produce a kind of "spiritual fallout"? Why should Nathan's metaphysics be so simple-minded that He cannot grasp the mechanics of good and evil on His earth? A lack of precision, a lack simply of detail...
...dull life would be if there were no possibility of nuclear war. No funny articles in the CRIMSON. No bomb shelters to build. No Civil Defense practices in the middle of Hayden's fifth concerto. Why, we'd have to return to the outer space scares, or perhaps invent something...
Heller's Yossarian might have been the creature of a benign Kafka-engagingly bedeviled, drolly pathetic. By feigning madness in ways that only a madman could invent (standing naked in formation to receive a Distinguished Flying Cross, marching backward in parades), Yossarian proclaims his withdrawal from the whole business of the war itself...
Died. Sigurd F. Varian, 60, ex-chairman of California's Varian Associates, a one time barnstorming pilot whose distaste for blind flying led him to invent (with two partners) the klystron tube, the high-frequency heart of radar development; in a private-plane crash; between Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico...