Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first husband explains: "The whole point of a family party is that you don't have to talk. It would ruin it if you had to be thinking of things to say." But once Maggie is launched into the world beyond Boston, her own superficiality merges into the larger cultural desert. In this hostile territory. Author Howe seems nearly as dazed as her heroine and falls back on those staples of the lady novelist: faithfully recorded but unexciting dialogue, minute cataloguing of the interiors of houses and the exteriors of people...
Under all these conditions, some 1,300 boys and girls fled to West Berlin last fall; most of them enrolled for nine-month high-school refresher courses, then entered universities or technical schools. This fall ,he number of education immigrants will Drobably be even larger...
...Larger models of the heavy water-sodium reactor (50,000 kilowatts and up) can be fueled with natural uranium. This is an important advantage for sales outside the U.S. So far, the most efficient reactors have demanded enriched uranium, made only in the U.S., Britain and Russia. Many countries want nuclear power, hate becoming dependent on the great powers for fuel. If they use natural uranium they can get fuel from many independent sources...
...should exhibit abroad flared up anew last week, thanks to a couple of spark-breathing art journals. The monthly Arts addressed an open letter of protest to President Eisenhower because of USIA's cancellation of an exhibit including works of ten artists criticized as politically left wing. The larger Art News joined in with a blast against USIA's censoring and canceling of traveling exhibits because of the political pasts of some of the artists involved, but charged incorrectly that the Government had instituted a policy restricting the exhibits to paintings made before 1917, date of the Bolshevik...
...this was part of the Pharaoh's larger plan to destroy the nation's Pantheon of man-beast gods and substitute the world's first monotheistic faith: sun worship. A famed bas-relief shows Akhenaten, Nefertete and a daughter sacrificing to the sun god (see cut). Unfortunately, soon after Akhenaten's death around 1350 B.C., the priest-ridden, sybaritic Tutankhamen (the famed "King Tut" of the 1920s) rang down the curtain on his predecessor's splendid experiment...