Word: myriad
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...inaccuracies which surround scientific notions of the subject. In the 200 years since races were first studied, no one has been able to provide an adequate definition of "race." Many have been proposed. Skin color and hair texture were among the first racial criteria; head shape, height, and a myriad of other traits were added later, until the number of different races became cumbersomely large...
...been injured. One can dismiss as irrelevant the accusation leveled recently by two dissident agents that the Bureau is led and staffed by racially biased men. More significant is the fact that in the South the Bureau must work hand in hand with local police on a myriad of law-enforcement matters, ranging from postal fraud to moonshine liquor. The individual agents have found it impractical, maybe impossible, to disrupt the network of friends and colleagues with whom they work on matters other than civil rights...
Perhaps the busiest practitioner of this fast-growing trade is tall, bespectacled John Watson, 40, of Dallas. His specialty is creating moonlight, though he produces a myriad other effects to order. His work has taken him to both East and West coasts and as far north as Canada, but most of his clients are in the Southwest. For, quite aside from the pleasure an oil baron gets from seeing his flora through the picture window, he needs night lighting for another reason. The incinerating Texas sunshine discourages bosky browsing in the landscaped areas; southwestern millionaires take their ease among...
...many kinds of strokes convention demanded, each had to be perfect. According to one convention, "a dot should resemble a rock falling from a high cliff. A horizontal stroke should resemble a formation of cloud stretching 1,000 miles. A vertical stroke should resemble a dried vine stem a myriad years old." It is one of the virtues of the collection that there is such an emphasis on calligraphy, for the calligrapher's art was especially admired; as each stroke went into the building of a character and each character flowed onto the next, a man's inner...
...Schuman, "and I'm also an administrator. I can't imagine a life when I couldn't do both-or each." Last week Schuman was doing both. As president of Manhattan's Lincoln Center, he turned what one associate calls his "leaping mind" to the myriad problems that follow on the center's glittering opening; as a composer, he sneaked away from his office to listen to the New York Philharmonic rehearse his new Eighth Symphony. The premiere of the Eighth, in fact, was a reminder of the unique combination of talents the center...