Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suppose that if I believed, with you, that History is a pool of filth and blood, I would do as you, and look twice before diving in. But suppose that I am in it already, suppose that, from my point of view, even your sulking is the proof of your historicity...
...Level XI (605 B.C.), Makor was a broken-down little village where the only excitement was an occasional romp with the sacred prostitutes of Astarte -until the Babylonians came. Corner, a self-righteous scold who must have seen proof sheets from the Book of Jeremiah, prophesied the fall of the city, the Babylonian captivity, and destruction of the conquerors...
...providing teachers and guides for the nation. Only in the last 100 years did intellectuals (the word became current during the Dreyfus affair in the 1890s) emerge as a separate class and organized opposition. This was made possible in part by the bourgeoisie; while the old aristocracy was insult-proof, the middle class positively begged to be told off. Yet the more the intellectuals criticized their societies, the more they complained that their societies did not appreciate them...
Fast & Far. Quasars were first recognized as astronomical curiosities when, unlike the ordinary stars they resemble, they showed up as the sources of enormous amounts of radio energy. Then Dr. Schmidt studied spectrograms of their light and demonstrated that it had shifted far toward the red wave lengths -proof positive that quasars are not only incredibly far off but are speeding away still farther, carried along by the rapid expansion of distant parts of the universe...
...often been alleged that Cliffies are a fairly pitiful group of people. If the allegation needed any proof, it was provided by a recent CRIMSON scoop of stop-the-presses proportions. This scoop revealed that the Cliffies of Cabot Hall have succeeded in having the small cokes normally dispensed by the local Coke machine replaced by big ones...