Word: reined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What a startling about Carter is that, within a consistent style, he has retained an astounding flexibility giving free rein to his originality. With this Quartet he for the first time used the same form twice. When he began it he discarded the emphasis on polyrhythms of his first quartet because he felt he had accomplished all he could within that technique...
...herself, Miss Gordimer--in non-professional life Mrs. Rein hold Cassirier--has the additional problem of coordinating marriage and career. "Constantly," she admits with disarming honesty, "I have trouble reconciling two roles which really don't go together. If you want to be a writer, it's very much happier and luckier to be a man." She qualifies her attitude, however, with the thoughtful comment that the "nervous tension" thus created "may be good for my work." The reader, finding in her stories a vividly rendered perception of the complex interplay of human relationships, may well be inclined to agree...
...freedom and national independence of the Congo cannot be guaranteed so long as the mercenary clique of Tshombe, Mobutu and Kasavubu have free rein,'' cried Zorin, adding, "An end must be put once and for all to the so-called United Nations operation in the Congo. The Congolese people must be given the opportunity to solve their own vital problems...
...Broglie), has resolved the paradox of light with a theory that allows it to be considered both as waves and as particles. But the prince is a scientific dreamer who can illuminate both matter-energy and the puzzle of creation in the same vision: "If we give free rein to our fantasy, we may suppose that at the first beginning of time, light alone existed in the world, and by its gradual thickening brought into being the material universe that we are able to see with its aid. And perhaps some day, when time has fulfilled itself, the universe will...
...Pentagon staff. Said Leatherneck Shoup: "A year ago I took the grips of the plow in my hands. After pushing an accumulation of vines and weeds from the moldboard, I lifted the lines from the dust and found hitched to that plow the finest team I ever held a rein on. Little geeing and hawing have been necessary." But Shoup also gave the Corps a tilling in spots. Speaking of "pride," he deplored the noncommissioned officer "whose uniform looks like it belonged to someone who retired in 1940; the officer with the yellow socks or the bay window...