Word: marvell
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Thomas S. Marvel, a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design, added that the attitudes of people are a barrier to the implementation of technological solutions. "It's hard to get people to give up a technology that's familiar to them," he said...
...Thank goodness that we Americans have a modern-day Robin Hood Congressman patrolling the Administration's activities [Feb. 19]. Wouldn't the founders of the Constitution marvel at the integrity of Senator Sam Ervin, in his bold quest to keep the Administration honest? I'm glad to see a conservative Senator call the President down. Maybe people will pay a little more attention, instead of just writing it off as another radical maneuver to defame the Administration. With the support of the people and other congressional colleagues, maybe Senator Ervin can reinstate the Constitution's concept...
LEHMAN HALL, The Adventures of Captain Marvel...
...have the Watergate burglars proposing pensions during their jailing. According to defense, their well-coached confessions should entitle their acts to be constructed as mere misdemeanors, inasmuch as the parties were patriotically motivated to forestall the catastrophic felony of a democratic victory. (We marvel how conveniently files disappear in headquarters). We could reward the California firebug for risking his person as fire-fighter in the most disastrous fire Berkeley has had in decades, despite his authorship of the same. We could also award a posthumous peace-prize to Herr Von Ribbentrop for cementing a bilateral non-aggression pact between Hitler...
...problem is that the Fuller package will not fit into any standard box. The geodesic dome is a marvel of simplicity and strength, but few engineers will admit that its creator is an engineer. Mathematicians are chilly, though many admire his geometry. Fuller's poetry, the hyperventilated phrasing of his ideas in a form that is supposed to facilitate understanding, frequently lapses into technological jargon. That fact did not seem to bother the Harvard selection committee that awarded Fuller the 1961-62 Charles Eliot Norton Professorship, a chair once occupied by T.S. Eliot. In trying to convey and assess...