Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General Destruction. The still-theoretical neutron bomb will use a "pure-fusion" reaction, a third generation in nuclear explosions. In old-fashioned fission (Abomb) explosions, nuclei of uranium or plutonium split roughly in half, and the big, heavy fragments are shoved apart by powerful electrical forces. Almost at once they collide with other nuclei, with other materials in the bomb and with the surrounding air. The collisions slow the nuclei down and turn their original energy into heat. The result is a high-temperature fireball that sears its surroundings with heat radiation and expands so violently that it generates...
...chickens and quail, and even a few grunting pigs, gave the lie to the great man by leading near-normal lives without a germ anywhere in them or on them. The fact that such animals can now be raised in quantity lets researchers, for the first time, study a "pure" infectious disease with only one kind of germ present. And truly germfree surgery on human patients, fulfilling a century-old dream, will soon be possible...
Greene clings to the figure because he feels that today's world has become dehumanized enough without the artist's making it more so. If pure abstraction once meant freedom for the artist "to paint any way he wishes," it is now to Greene a negative license without real meaning. "The artist's freedom," says he, "must again be defined in relationship to the world, which means visually for the visual artist. Some degree of representation is again demanded...
...danger of creating an elite or an underpriviliged minority is as important as the objective merits a program might have if made universal. This is one of the crucial issues that has been missed in abstracted discussions of three and four year programs, as in the argument that, with pure logic, asks why, if four years it better than three, five should not be the best solution of all. The process of getting a degree in three years is quite distinct from getting a three-year education in a four-year college...
...define his nature. For Protestants at least, Garnett thinks, science has swept away such metaphysics; instead, they refer to God in the Biblical language of faith. But they recognize at the same time "that these Biblical concepts and statements cannot be taken literally as if they were pure history and science. They are symbols and their meaning lies deeper." The result is that "the plain man is bewildered and does not know what to believe, for the theologian has said nothing about God that he can claim, in plain, ordinary language, is true and that presents him as a Being...