Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Antennas & Thatch. Last week, while natives sang and guests drank a toast in kava (a paralyzing concoction of powdered pepper root and water), Idaho-born Governor H. Rex Lee dedicated an educational TV network that in two months of operation has transformed the islands. The net centers on a big (40,000 watts) transmitter, lifted to the top of 1,600-ft. Mt. Alava by a new, mile-long cable tramway that sways giddily over .Pago Pago Harbor...
...ensuing dark age arose a new archaic beginning of art, which developed through several centuries to reach the purity of form and piety of humanistic vision usually conjured up by the phrase "Greek art." This ancient double root of the Greek experience is the subject of Author Demargne's engrossing study and its opulent page after page of illustration...
...Psychologists and psychiatrists assert that fear of death is universal, but disagree about its true nature. Freud compared it with fears of castration. Others believe that patients fear dying itself less than their own helplessness and uselessness in the process. Some believe the fear of death is the instinctual root of all other fears...
...rather than patent approval of, the Machine Age. For the fun of it, Calder makes his own family kitchenware-ladles, forks, spoons-using leftover scrap metal; he snips out toys for his grandchildren and jewelry for his wife. He is, in effect, a sophisticated primitive who sees the root of art in craft and invention...
First, incomplete medical research suggested that a mysterious substance called cholesterol was a root cause of much artery disease and many heart attacks. Then, after more complicated studies, the researchers said no, maybe cholesterol itself was not very important. The one conclusion that the public could safely draw was that medical science needed to learn a great deal more about what cholesterol does, where it comes from and how and where it goes. For taking innumerable small but important steps toward that vital goal, two biochemists, an American and a German, last week shared the 1964 Nobel Prize (worth...