Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passion for tinkering with gadgets. Born in Everett, Mass., near Boston, grandson of a whaler and son of a Universalist preacher, Bush feels most at home in a Cape Cod fishing boat. Possessed of insatiable curiosity and a prodigious memory, he has solid learning in the more obvious forms of literature (he quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard), likes to read philosophy, plays the flute, loves symphonic music, has been a successful farmer and turkey raiser, is a fascinated and fascinating lecturer, and as a scientist has contributed substantially to progress in applied electricity and electronics...
...shall refrain from obvious comment...
...comedy and, like much of James Thurber's work, cannot be taken seriously. But, after the laughter and the mirth, remember it in seriousness, for it represents a condemnation of American middle-class life almost as damaging as that of Thurber. It isn't as bitter or as obvious, but it's there just the same...
...conduct of education is not an international matter. . . . The job of carrying educational ideas across national frontiers . . . requires considerable tact, sympathy and experience. . . . With the exception of the most obvious cases, a foreigner cannot tell whether teaching is warlike or not. Of course, it is plain in the goose step, the maps, the warlike mottoes: but when it comes to the more delicate emphases, the problem is so difficult [as to be] impossible...
Although answering our tactless and obvious query, "How do you like the United States?" in a gracious manner, he became more exuberant when he mentioned Peru, for it is still quite apparent that Capt. Higueras longs for his home in Miraflores, a small suburb just outside of Lima. The reason? A beautiful wife (this is not hearsay; reference, his pinup pictures of her) and a three and one-half year...