Word: singularizes
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...brought home the fact that those of us who thought ourselves solitary admirers of Salinger are, on the contrary, members of a vast crowd. Writing is a quiet art-its audience does not queue up at a Carnegie Hall or a Guggenheim Museum. But the Salinger who interprets the singular and lonely person trying to stay intact amidst the reality of thousands must feel as out of place facing the thousands...
...funds will solve most of the quirks in student exchange, notably the money worries that help embitter visitors. But these problems do not seem to have cost the U.S. much prestige, to judge from the students who finish their schooling and go home. What they say, in fact, reflects singular credit on U.S. education...
...Boxer's planes be brought into the battle. Rusk still would not have this. Several others were also opposed, including the President's personal staffers. Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke vouched for the worth of Bissell's proposition. The outcome of the meeting was a singular compromise. Jets from Boxer would provide cover next morning for exactly one hour, long enough for the ships to run into the shore and start unloading and for the remaining B-26s to get in a hard blow...
...delicate detection equipment, many an insect escapes-and scientists have long wondered why. In the current issue of the American Scientist, Biologists Kenneth Roeder and Asher E. Treat explain how they pried into the defensive secrets of the noctuid moth, an insect that has demonstrated singular evasive skill...
...Kennedy called it "utopia" in his speech) that not only politics but dissent as well stop at the waterline, by recruiting many of its most active critics into the Executive branch. The concentration of a body of experts, combined with too much talk of national purpose, has bred the singular philosophy that the Administration's planners are capable of producing a single, right foreign policy...