Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Admiral Rickover's memento: "Oh, God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small." They are stage props. The man lives elsewhere, perhaps down the hall, beyond the small office of Personal Assistant Susan Clough, the place where L.B.J. used to slurp low-calorie root beer...
...students. Because Afro courses focusing on art and music are usually undersubscribed, many concentrators particularly object to the appointment of Josephine Wright, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, as head tutor for next year, another departmental decision they say shows the humanistic trend in Afro lying at the root of the department's student enrollment problems...
Such objects are, of course, at the opposite pole of sensibility from the ideas of wabi and sabi-"artless" simplicity, near-invisible interferences with nature - which are the root of much Japanese art. These are court art, raised to an intimidating level of egotism: a feudal lord displayed his power and wealth in the costumes of his Nō troupe. Apart from the kind of tie-dyeing used for some kimonos, which took a year to tie and another year to unpick, these robes probably consumed more expert human labor than any other garments in history. The weavers might finish...
...after all, is an expression of one overriding national value: the libertarian ideal. It is the intentional absence of central control that produces the unevenness of the final result. The very elasticity that Americans seem to value most produces the disparities that most annoy them: it is at the root of the social and economic mobility that is the very essence of the American scheme...
...allowing Firman to tell his own story, Ambler produces the same moral blur that characterized his earlier spy novels. Because Firman is indeed under siege, from several directions, it is hard not to root for him. An avowed liar who frequently protests his own innocence, Firman also deserves all the trouble he gets. If nothing else, he is guilty of rampant pettifogging...