Word: singularability
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...should anybody go to church," asks Editor Kingsley Martin [TIME, July 19], "and listen to the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use?" Why, he asks, listen to the greatest compendium of moral law ever issued, in a time of singular moral lawlessness? In other words, why should anybody be such a fool as to consult a physician in a time of epidemic...
Above Lake Tanganyika's blue waters the Bahutu or Wahutu (singular Muhutu) were minding their own business 300 years ago when the Batutsi or Watusi (singular: Mututsi) wandered in, probably from Abyssinia. The Batutsi announced that hereafter they would run the twin kingdoms of Ruanda-Urundi, and look after the Bahutu. Because the Batutsi brought with them wondrous long-horned cattle and because they were seven feet tall, the Bahutu did not argue the point...
...thought . . . that those strips of foil were called "window" (singular), and that we dropped them . . .to get the enemy's damned radar-controlled searchlights and guns off our actually large formations. . .It was kind of comforting to hide behind a "window" screen-with the big accurate flak laying on the tin foil below and behind us, rather than on the steel foil armor plate we were sitting...
There is, of course, no "individual" who can be taken as the archetype of Harvard undergraduates. The student body is characterized rather by a singular lack of any clearly defined mutual characteristics. Nowhere along the line from admissions to Commencement is there a unifying impulse. This absence, better known as the College's policy of fostering "individualism," sends students out into four years of college on a certificate of admission and a prayer. Many channel this independence into a successful and rich education; others become lost in its uncharted maze of courses and activities...
...meritorious from the standpoint of authenticity for Mr. Rank to have much of the film photographed in proper pre-Mazdaian darkness, it becomes, after a while, a tiresome puzzle even to identify the various members of the large and distinguished cast, many of whom possess faces of singular peculiarity. The scenario is not easy to follow, either. This is because the numerous sub-plots have not been integrated and are told in quick episodic fashion which is further aggravated by the slashing of whole scenes from the American version. Film continuity, while not always a prescribed virtue, would have been...