Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occur to you that Ted may be amply qualified for the Senate in his own right? JAMES WILLIAM PRICE San Francisco Sir: If Jack and Bobby can put Ted in the Senate, then Laos won't be the only country with three princes...
...good deal higher than analytical thought. "To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions," he writes. "There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless." Seeing Sharply. Borges' stories take place in a world that is half commonplace, half fantastic. Dreams occur within dreams; time loses its significance. What counts is momentary impulse and observation. A story mysteriously titled Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius concerns a mythical planet where people have no conception of material objects. Things have no names; they are described as they appear at the moment. People call...
...Deep Well, in which occur "obscure and powerful reactions below the level of conscious mental processes," which Woodworth felt to be the underlying foundation of "the kingdom of poetry, the world of the creative imagination, and one's own personal life...
...Guard. Van Looy studies his opponents as a mongoose studies cobras, searching for signs of injuries that may slow them down or force them to change their regular pattern of racing. He memorizes every course, locating trouble spots where accidents or traffic jams are likely to occur, picking his spots for passing and for his final sprint. Like most top racers, he employs a flying squad of domestiques, whose job is not to win themselves but to harry opponents, ride in front to break the wind, trade bikes if Van Looy's breaks down, and ensure that...
Then, above the din, he shouted: "Does it not occur to them that it might be a good idea if they could concentrate on one or two other things that also matter to the people of Britain? The time has come to say this-either they choose to go on wrecking our chances, in which case they ought not to be in the Labor Party at all, or they must agree to official policy. The British people are not going to be obstructed by a small bunch of neurotics...