Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose of the machine is to form "dendritic crystals" for the study of crystal formation in metals. Therefore they are formed quite differently than ordinary snow and seem to grow like "amphibious snowflakes," a scientist said...
...misfits. Some students can never accustom themselves to institutional living, and many never accommodate themselves to a House they never chose. The loss of these few individuals will not seriously weaken the system, and the University already recognizes their demands. The results of the recent poll do not seem to indicate that the ratio of malcontents has increased, but show that certain facets of the system need improvement. Once these measures are taken, there will be little demand to move...
...states for education of retarded children, is more than offset by the fattening of others. Some of these boosts are Sputnik-inspired: a 100% increase for the National Science Foundation, $75 million for a brand-new program of science scholarships and other aid to education. But some welfare increases seem unconnected with the cold war, e.g., $20 million more for "grants for construction of waste treatment facilities," an extra $37 million for "rural electrification and rural telephones...
Unhappily, Williams' story dies with his telling it, for though he weaves a spell he cannot validate a vision. It matters less that noisomely misanthropic symbols keep recurring in his work than that they nowhere seem purgative. With Swiftian ferocity he reveals a Swiftian tormented-ness; and as with Swift, however much he retches, he cannot disgorge.* More culpably, Williams' gift for theatricalism makes the how of Suddenly Last Summer devour the why, turns the horrifying means into an end in itself...
Summing up, the President says: "The times, then, seem to me to call not for a violent new national effort in a single direction (which in any event we are ill-prepared to take) but rather for a more consistent, steady, concern for the whole of education...