Word: slenderness
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Causing special gasps of delight on opening night was Richard Lippold's 90-ft.-long sculpture. Titled Gemini II, it swoops through the air like hammocks of magical cobwebs, belying by its tension the fact that the wire strands support 2,300 slender aluminum bars...
Since Warner does not conceal his allegorical purpose-indeed, he flaunts it-the reader is nervously aware all along that the slender narrative has second billing. What happens, then, does not really count. What counts is Warner's message, which he states and restates with a bald clarity of which Kafka, whom Warner admires and emulates, never felt the need. "I began to see," says Roy, "that this life, in spite of its drunkenness and inefficiency, was wider and deeper than the activity in which we were constricted by the iron compulsion of the air vice marshal...
...this prevalence of suspicion-intellectuals mistrusting the President, the President mistrusting intellectuals -that has short-circuited communications between the two. Eric Goldman resigned largely because he felt that Johnson did not really use him or even listen to him. If his concrete accomplishments seem slender-staging the White House Festival of the Arts, urging reform of the country's archaic draft machinery, counseling Johnson to give a respectful ear to the voices of national dissent-it may well be that Goldman was not permitted to do more...
...both of circumstances and of his rigid fascist ideology. Fear dominates him. Hatred churns in his stomach. One can only hope, like Abram Fischer, that the integrity of man will ultimately win through and justice prevail. That seems to be South Africa's only hope. It is a slender thread...
...Force." A World War II tail gunner and six-kill ace in Korea, Kasler in five months of flying missions over the North has limped home four times with his F-105 riddled by flak or MIGs, has seen 30 SAM missiles ("They're long, very slender and a dirty-yellow color") zoom up in his vicinity, tangled in the longest dogfight with MIGs thus far in the war (17 minutes). Six weeks ago, Kasler flew as co-leader of the raid on Hanoi's oil installations...