Word: linearized
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...Shaw, Mark Harris and Philip Roth. The reason seems clear. Baseball is the most solitary of team endeavors. Nobody blocks for the batter or sets picks for the pitcher. A double-play combination may radiate exquisite timing and cooperation, but the process of getting two runners out is still linear, a matter of performing one delicate, discrete act after another. Small wonder that writers, sitting alone and laboriously putting words to gether, respond sympathetically to both putouts and errors. In writing and base ball, the risk of embarrassment is high and the distance between competence and true distinction enormous. Most...
There are about 400 document collections in the red brick building in Radcliffe Yard. It is difficult to give an exact number because of the nature of the collections, which range in size from half a file box to 188 linear feet and in subject from a very extensive collection of etiquette and cook books to the letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Betty Friedan...
...talents. Then six years ago, Willie bucked the system by leaving Nashville for Austin, Texas, where he took charge of a movement that made outlaw a term of defiant pride. Along with such congenial spirits as Waylon Jennings, Billy Joe Shaver and Jerry Jeff Walker, he fashioned a spare, linear style with a heavy rock beat that reached an audience far broader than the country faithful, mainly by appealing to long-haired rock fans...
...lounging in the shade of a melt-your-polyester-shirt-by-seven August morning. Yes, this was it, this was the Big Time Under the Big Top, Perspire Under the Whelm as it were; this was It, the Big Meltdown. Perhaps it should be explained, start at the beginning, linear like, a very good place to start as Julie Andrews informed us in the dawn of our existence back in those sweaty movie theatres of Pittsburgh and Grosse Point and Santa Fe and Santa Monica...
Some 500 companies are locked in a desperate recruiting battle for a severely limited number of workers. The more esoteric the specialty, the keener the competition. The mere mention of the name of an MOS (metal on silicon) engineer causes executive knees to bend. In personnel offices, linear engineers and microsystems programmers are spoken of in awed whispers, as if they were deities...