Word: mattering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bing also issued a waspish, pettish statement to the press: "Madame Callas' reputation for projecting her undisputed histrionic talents into her business affairs is a matter of common knowledge. This, together with her insistence on a claimed right to alter or abrogate a contract at will or at whim, has finally led to the present situation . . . Let us all be grateful that we have had the experience of her artistry for two seasons; the Metropolitan is also grateful that the association is ended . . . I could name a number of very famous singers who thought they were indispensable and would...
...make replicas of itself, taking as building materials the simpler molecules in the medium around it. The first organism to pass this divide between the living and the inert may have been a single complex molecule or a large cluster of them. This tiny, nameless primogenitor of all living matter may have used some primitive kind of photosynthesis to reproduce itself. Or perhaps it merely picked up smaller molecules in a series of random accidents. Dr. Calvin does not know...
...level have been succeeded by some higher organism. Dr. Calvin's conclusion: "Life is not a rather special and unique event on one of the minor planets around an ordinary sun at the edge of one of the minor galaxies in the universe," but "a state of matter widely distributed throughout the universe...
...seems within the realm of possibility that he should be able to do so. When we realize that other organisms may be doing similar things at some millions of regions in the universe, we see that life itself and man, as one representative of that state of organization of matter, becomes a cosmic influence himself...
...part of the matter: the New York publishing world-which is small to the point of claustrophobia-knew all about Lolita. It had been published (in English) by Paris' Olympia Press, had been reviewed in the U.S. (TIME, March 18, 1957), but had not found a U.S. firm willing to take a chance on it. But Bookman Minton says he was not aware of Lolita until Reader Ridgewell brought it to his attention. Said Rosemary, happily swizzling a vodka on the rocks: "I thought Nabokov had a very interesting way of writing, very, you know-crystalline...