Word: maximation
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...maximum needs a new definition. The space program could certainly use more money. But much more important, it requires a new direction of purpose. Scientific advancement is fine; so is the international prestige that comes with space achievement. But only at its peril can the U.S. forget that old maxim about the high ground...
...practice of juxtaposing a free and a strict form: the Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor and the Prelude and Fugue in B Minor. The latter fugue is a fine specimen of the many Bach fugues that are first-rate works wrought from an unpromising theme. Bach disproved the maxim, Ex nihilo nihil...
...They were the leaders of Atlanta's cultural life, and they feasted their senses at the Louvre, at St. Peter's and St. Mark's, at the Tate and the Uffizi Gallery and the Doges Palace. They had dined on the Via Veneto and in Maxim...
...Daily Express, whose 83rd birthday prompted the shindig. "I felt that this was an occasion on which Fleet Street could forget its animosities," said Rothermere, who arranged the affair. "But I assure you, they'll be resumed tomorrow." Said the Beaver: "I have destroyed completely the foolish maxim that the good die young." "Trouble with me," Horsewoman Liz Whitney Tippe+t, 55, once complained as she surveyed the thoroughbreds at her 4,000-acre Llangollen Farm in Virginia, "is that I'm always buying and never selling." But Liz, a Main Line socialite who was John Hay Whitney...
Happily unflustered was the culprit: Senior Jessica Moore, 17, the straight-A student editor of Talon, who had simply picked Marx's maxim out of Bartlett's Familiar (but not everywhere) Quotations. "If anyone other than Marx had said it," she remarked sensibly, "there wouldn't have been any excitement." Then Jessica went off to accept a long-scheduled honor: a citizenship award from the Memphis branch of the D.A.R...