Word: lear
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William Powell Lear is an inventive genius whose restless mind and huge energies have made him, at 56, the head of a $64 million business turning out close to 700 navigational, communications and control systems and devices for planes and missiles. Although he quit school in the eighth grade, Lear can sketch a complete instrument system for a single-engined plane or a jet transport on a nightclub napkin. In 1950, despite his well-earned reputation as a stay-up-all-night playboy, he won the Collier Trophy for distinguished service to aviation as a designer-manufacturer...
Last week restless Bill Lear was off to something new, as usual. In West Los Angeles he opened a $250,000 laboratory to put his company into solid-state physics in his search for new products. Among far-out fields to be studied: microcircuitry (e.g., reducing the chassis of a satellite television unit to a few cubic inches) and electroluminescence (e.g., picturing all of a plane's instrument readings on a cockpit window so the pilot will not have to glance away even when landing or taking off). While moving farther into the wild blue yonder, he is also...
From Hannibal to Space. Inventor Lear's restlessness hit early. Born in Hannibal, Mo., Mark Twain's home town, he enlisted in the Navy at 16, was made a radio instructor at the Great Lakes Training Station. He learned so much that, discharged at 18, he soon opened his own radio consulting and manufacturing firm. Among his early jobs: designing a special coil that made possible the first practical commercial auto radio. He learned to fly, and in 1930 opened an aviation-electronics business that turned out the first practical light-plane radio. After World War II, Lear...
...disastrous. The fusion of Zhiva-go and Pasternak admits of no third party and no alternatives. Life is as Zhivago sees it, and the arguments of supplementary characters are given very little stature. Dostoyevsky argued eloquently for all three Karamazovs. Shakespeare's universal vision was splintered into a Lear, an Edmund, and a Fool in just one play. But Zhivago's antagonists are given a few pages of characterization, a few pages of soliloquy and a few pages of judgment--than back again into the moras of Zhivago's disaffection...
...feeling, a rush of psychological light. Moving from Youth through Manhood to Old Age, he plays many parts. Few will complain that he includes a host of warhorses-Hamlet's best soliloquies, Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, an abdicating Richard II, a sleepless Henry IV, a dying Lear and John of Gaunt. A few may wonder why Gielgud includes numerous sonnets and not a single lyric, only to decide that he prefers his Shakespeare, even when most poetic, in a personalized context...