Word: singularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caught for the Cardinals. Baseball players, brainwise, used to be presumed capable of little more skill in the arts of communication than a repertory of meta-laryngeal grunts. But Rizzuto and Garagiola are both articulate, witty, catlike on top of the play by play, and full of first-person-singular remarks about how it is done. Example...
...Singular Doctrines. Though he had a reputation in later life for austere reserve, these early diaries show that the young Charles Francis was sensitive, touchy, and much more frolicsome than the rest of the Adams clan. Covering his life from age twelve to 22 and dealing mostly with his Harvard years, the entries are often solemn commentary on his vast reading, but there are also vivid accounts of drinking bouts, billiard games, and pretty girls who powerfully affected him: "Women have acted upon me by a voluptuous manner, to which I am unfortunately peculiarly susceptible." In a hurry...
This was a flouting, he felt, of natural law: "I believe God intended the union of the sexes as soon as they became of age to know the passion. This may be a singular doctrine and I may hereafter find it false, but I do now firmly believe." Charles Francis was always drawing a moral, even from a word-slinging match between a friend and an Irishman: "A young man is sure to disgrace himself by entering into quarrels with his inferiors, particularly when he is in the wrong...
Those who prefer to be wrenched to their senses will do well to dabble in "Ordinary Differential Equations," Math 218, which courts their curiosity with "real critical points" as well as some "complex singular points." Meanwhile nautically-minded folks plunge into "the influence of naval command of the seas" in Naval Sciences 12, and H. Stuart Hughes holds forth on the history of France since...
This tasteless story is laid in the near future, and it pretends that Douglass Oilman, the first Negro President in U.S. history, has just entered the White House. He has arrived there by a singular coincidence of disaster: the Vice President has died of a heart attack, the President and Speaker of the House have both been crushed by a collapsing ceiling. Dilman, as president pro tem of the U.S. Senate, is next in line. In Wallace's contrived exercise, Dilman is made to contend with 1) a son who belongs to a Black Muslim-type society...