Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic success of the Common Market that most of Europe's out nations are queuing up to get in.* Last week three neutrals-Austria, Switzerland and Sweden-met in the Swedish ski resort of Rattvik to discuss ways of becoming associated with the market without sacrificing their precious neutrality. The combined trade of the three with the market nations last year totaled $6,279,000,000, and all three fear that the market's common tariff barriers against the rest of the world will eventually freeze them out. At the same time, they fear the market...
...precious data come from a 440-lb. satellite observatory launched last week from Cape Canaveral into an orbit averaging 355 miles high. The satellite, called OSO (for Orbiting Solar Observatory), is a gadget-lovers' dream, the most complex object launched into space so far. Yet at last report it was working perfectly...
...instance is a brief story called The Crow in the Woods. In lacelike prose, with just enough homely obtrusions to prevent his art from seeming precious, Updike tells of a young man's epiphany. The hero wakes up on a winter morning, regards the beauty of his still-sleeping wife, and looks in awe at trees transformed by snow. He rises, fondly changes his baby daughter's diaper, and carries her downstairs, warmly conscious of the absent-minded pat of her hands on his neck. His wife bustles down and prepares breakfast. While he is eating...
...stumbled toward catastrophe, poetry blundered deeper into obscurity and ambiguity, into the talented but precious minutiae of Wallace Stevens and William Empson, whose poems often suggest esthetic scrimshaw, a cathedral carved in a cherry pit. Poetry became a world unto itself, a self-sealing vacuum in which poets engaged in a conspiracy of mutual approval, safe from the embarrassing questions of the bewildered public, safe from what Poet Stefan George called "the indignity of being understood...
Famous for his blazing starts, Robinson outdid himself last week. In his semifinal heat, he stomped so hard on the accelerator that his super-powered racer reared like a rodeo bronc into a disastrous "wheel stand," thus costing him a few precious fractions of a second that he was unable to make up. The new "Top Eliminator": California's Jim Nelson, 34, a mechanic who has been racing dragsters since 1948, has never before won a major competition. Nelson's winning time for the quarter-mile sprint was 8.7 sec., and his gold-and-red, Dodge-powered Dragmaster...