Word: spatial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drama, as so many know by now, takes place in a garret above an Amsterdam spice factory, where a group of Jewish refugees live in secret, under constant threat of discovery by the Nazis. Stevens' attempts to escape his spatial limitations, through open window spots and photographic tricks, are, on the whole, successful...
...Philosopher (and Nobel Prizewinner) Henri Bergson in his titanic effort to write the definitive novel of time and memory, so Durrell seeks to base his four-decker work on Einstein's space-time continuum. Justine, Balthazar, and the projected third book, Mountolive, will "interlap, interweave, in a purely spatial relation. Time is stayed. The fourth part alone will represent time and be a true sequel...
...make a snake out of clay. "He has a considerable grasp of spatial values...
...chief, James ("Scotty") Reston, "the Washington Monument stands up a little straighter." Flinty old (83) Poet Frost proved to Pundit Reston that he is no slacker at punditry himself. Frost welcomes the struggle and decision-making that make life tough-and neither the Russians, nor their satellites (terrestrial or spatial) upset him a bit: "We ought to enjoy a standoff. Let it stand and deepen in meaning. Let's not be hasty about showdowns. Let's be patient and confident with our country." As optimistic as he is individualistic, Robert Frost summed up his poet...
Hisimatsu noted that the word "form" is generally used in a spatial sense, but that sound, for example, may be said to have "form" in a non-spatial sense. Such ideas as "beauty," "truth," and "good" may be said to have form in that they may be differentiated from each other and from their opposites...