Word: sightedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In the last decade of his life, Paul Cézanne experienced, perhaps more fully than any great artist since Michelangelo, the anxiety of Tantalus. The more he painted, the more he saw. The more he saw, the more manifold and unattainable truth became. "I must tell you," Cé...
These scientists and their colleagues now hold what Rogers calls the "reins of evolution." Absorbed in their laboratory work, many lack the perspective to understand, or often even notice the choices that lie ahead. As Rogers notes in an otherwise short-sighted book, there is one significant exception. Robert Sinsheimer...
The familiar was familiar all right, because physically the town has not changed all that much in a quarter of a century; the crepe myrtles still grace the houses, which go by the family names of four generations ago. But the strange, in this case, was stranger yet, and came...
False Alarms. Teng's comeback-long expected but oft delayed-unfolded in the mysterious, equivocal style that is typical of high-level politics in China. The first signal that his official rehabilitation was forthcoming came early last week when a wall poster suddenly burst into view in the northern...
The only Spiro Pavlovich listed in the New Orleans telephone directory said yesterday the Spiro Pavlovich in question was a distant relative who hadn't been sighted in "about ten years."