Word: prometheans
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...economic units far bigger than the family, the city or the region. It requires education not as a means of imparting fixed dogma but as a process of training the mind to seek its own answers. In short, the secret of Western success is not merely technology, but the Promethean or Faustian spirit...
...Amid a riot of witty wordage and abundant alliteration, TIME portrayed Merrick not as a promethean, prolific, prodigious producer, or as a brilliant Broadway Brahma, but as (horrors!) the Abominable Showman! Couldn't you have kindly conceded that this charming champion of the theater has brought delight to thousands of theatergoers, given work to throngs of thespians, and made a place in the sun for worthy playwrights? JANE RENTON SMITH Plymouth Meeting...
...more stupendous, once laser beams can be used to produce full-color, three-dimensional images (see SCIENCE). Already neon lighting has freed some artists from pigment to experiment with pure colors that need not be squeezed from their tubes. So far, those who have tried out this plug-in Promethean palette have achieved mostly primitive op and pop effects. A few who are pioneering in the new art medium...
Diversity & Verve. Vaster in size and more splendid in promise than any other form of community in man's history, the metropolitan complex is the epicenter and embodiment of American life. In its Promethean ambit of inter ests, its cultural diversity and kinetic verve, the city's heart sets the pace for the rest of the nation, and indeed much of the world. It is an unrivaled func tional framework for finance and busi ness, a rich lode of pleasure, a superb showcase for art, theater, music, fashion. At the same time, the "oceanic amplitude of these great...
...where is that Promethean heat...