Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card cata- logues or other areas and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage. As a teacher, he may well lack that vivid excitement before fact or expression which is the basis of real communication. As a scholar, he may lack the means which a rigorous training in disciplines and techniques ought to have given him. If he knows that he does not possess the necessary tools with which a piece of work ought to be tackled, and that his training in form...
...course, if the State Department does decide to cut off economic help to Yugoslavia, Tito will have no alternative but the Soviets and their satellites. The Yugoslav economy is already showing signs of strain--the five year plan is not working as well as was expected--and some sort of financial security is needed to keep Tito in control. Since at present there seems to be no organized alternative to Tito except a regime even more definitely committed to Moscow, the U.S. has little choice but to help Tito and hope for the best...
...ways that are impossible for earth-bound humans. Some of these jobs might be difficult for a light satellite, such as the 21.5-lb. U.S. Vanguard. But a properly equipped satellite could take pictures of the earth or the sun and transmit them to the ground by some sort of TV or telephoto process. Such data, in the hands of the world's scientists, would give the human species a much better understanding of its home planet, and the ocean of space around...
...best bet is believed to be a "magnetic bottle": an arrangement of magnetic fields that will grab the electrically charged deuterium nuclei and force them to stay close together while an electric current heats them very hot. In practice, a magnetic bottle is some sort of glass tube, often doughnut-shaped, filled with rarefied deuterium. When electric current is shot through it in the proper way, a hot, thread-thin spark flickers briefly in the center. This is deuterium pinched together by magnetic force. It is many times hot enough to melt the glass of the tube, but it never...
Space & Meaning. At midcentury, American art has reached a sort of delta. The leading painters follow a dozen different channels, and each naturally insists that his particular channel is the main one. Fortunately, there is controversy. When two of the nation's most admired painters can hold and express views as diametrically opposed as those of Mark Tobey and Andrew Wyeth, a healthy state of tension exists. "Multiple space bounded by white lines," Abstractionist Tobey tells the world without a wink, "symbolizes higher states of consciousness." And Realist Wyeth replies: "What the subject means is the most important thing...