Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cart,/They felt showy in their bright nylon. /A woman with a bowl looked at them from her door. /Chickens. A covered water trough. She told me/more about the street and then remembered,/what she wasy saying, she said, was that there were/farmers out working in the snow...
...always said, 'I'll never do this again.' I never meant it. I just said it." For some time, it has been an open question whether Jagger, snow 38, means anything at all, especially what he sings...
...Physicists, C.P. Snow...
Where does Snow-a technical administrator during World War II, recruiting scientists in Britain-fit into the total picture he has sketched? He apparently presumed himself the model man of "two cultures." But in retrospect, he seems an outsider to both -the novelist who was a scientist to other novelists, the scientist who was a novelist to other scientists...
There was little doubt which peer group he valued more. To Snow, the nuclear physicists were, in fact, artists, opening the universe like a flower. Snow praises his inspired scientists for being "morally admirable" as well. After citing their "courage, truth-telling, kindness," he rather astonishingly asserts that "on the whole scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us." For Snow the agonizing irony is that these saintly men-Rutherford, "bored" by money; Bohr, "simply and genuinely kind"; Einstein, not only looking but be having like an Old Testament prophet-should end up being even indirectly responsible...