Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under Gaullism. But there is also likely to be a backlash from the conservative elements in the population ?the petits bourgeois, the landlords, the little businessmen?against the radical forces that demand swift changes. In this confrontation, the radical students themselves are likely to be targets of a sharp reaction, perhaps even from the more moderate elements in the student body that would prefer to study rather than riot...
...comedy makes no apologia for the homosexual society, but uses it as a frame within which to hang the skeins of diverse lives, while unraveling some of the knots in which human beings tie themselves. Leonard Frey, Kenneth Nelson and Cliff Gorman lead an exemplary ensemble through assaults of sharp-edged humor and barrages of put-down gags...
...result, her impressions offer neither hard news nor political insight but some sharp feminine glimpses of enemy territory-and of Mary McCarthy herself. She likes her little comforts. "To my stupefaction," she writes, "there was hot water, plenty of it. . . At the Continental in Saigon, there was only cold water." Amid "other luxuries I found at the Thong Nhat Hotel were sheets of toilet paper laid out on a box in a fan-pattern." Since she was served "little cups of tea" almost everywhere she went, she wondered why she got tea at the War Crimes Museum but beer...
Nonsense Protein? Increasingly, researchers at the conference tended to make a sharp distinction between long-and short-term memory-in other words, the difference between a man's ability to remember a poem learned in grammar school and his inability, for the life of him, to remember the name of the fellow he met at lunch yesterday. Sweden's Dr. Hydén felt that the creation of protein (as in pigeons, rats and goldfish) is essential to man's formation of long-term memories. Human brain cells, said Hydén, seldom divide and replace themselves...
Another unfortunate disadvantage of the harpsichord is its tempermental proclivity for going out of tune. True to form, the Challis reacted to Friday's overheated JCR and went disappointly flat, a fact which was only exacerbated by Buswell's tuning and consistently playing sharp...