Word: poeticizing
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...narrative continues to suffer unexplained breakdowns, lapsing into semi-poetic word association, noises, and archaic spelling. These breakdowns jar all the more powerfully as they occur within passages of complete textual self-control. They undermine the text's tacit claim of logic leaving a wasteland devoid of any structure, any shelter...
...space race had become more than a poetic dream. It was now a military imperative. While the Soviets were pushing ahead with their missile program, American strategists had clung to the notion that manned bombers rather than rockets were the most suitable, and somehow the most romantic, way to fight wars in the Atomic Age. With alliances and airfields that ringed the globe, the U.S. had seen no reason to bring the nuclear race into space. Now it was necessary...
...help publicize the event, Herschbach showed movies of last year's marathon in a chemistry lecture. He says he believes that the films have educational as well as advertising value. "The gyrations of the dancers are verysimilar to the movements of DNA," he says. "It'ssort of poetic, don't you think...
...precise, sensuous lyrics while an officer in World War I, during which he was seriously wounded; he recounted that part of his life in the popular autobiography Goodbye to All That (1929). Among his most controversial works was The White Goddess (1948), an erudite but eccentric study of poetic myth...
...career of activism, not encouraging riots and the use of force but rather education and constant reminders of the brotherhood of man. Included in this collection are his three book length essays--"The Fire Next Time," "No Name In The Street" and "The Devil Finds Work"--which serve as poetic manifestos of his theory. In his essay on Alex Haley's Roots, Baldwin delineates his attitude towards activism: "Each of us, however unconsciously, can't but be the vehicle of the history which has produced us. Well, we can perish in this vehicle, children, or we can move...