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...alliance has been good for both -and for West Germany. Thanks in large part to its strong-willed Grafin, Die Zeit wields an influence out of all proportion to its size-a bare 200,000 subscribers-and in more than one sphere. The paper was one of the first to recognize postwar Germany's literary resurgence, among the first to encourage such gifted young novelists as Giinter Grass and Heinrich Boll...
...contribution of his own; but by his relentless campaign for increased freedom for intellectuals, he has, and will continue to make, an important-contribution to the artistic achievements of others. He and his allies will suffer setbacks, as they did last spring, but each time they will cause the sphere of freedom to be widened a little further...
...Army has shown itself to be the leader among the armed services. Unlike the more excitable Air Force, which once published a manual accusing large blocs of Protestant ministers of Communist leanings, the Army encourages solid literary achievement. Air Force pamphleteers, like the Grace Metaliouses of the civilian sphere, may enjoy a brief notoriety. But Army books are more likely to end up on the shelves of serious collectors...
...overlaps. The method of averting one's attention from evil, and living simply in the light of good is splendid as long as it will work. It will work with many persons; it will work far more generally than most of us are ready to suppose; and within the sphere of its successful operation there is nothing to be said against it as a religious solution...
Lemon Shape. The sphere itself must be machined with incredible accuracy: no more than five millionths of an inch of error can be tolerated. When it is not spinning, the sphere is not exactly spherical; it is slightly prolate (lemon-shaped), with its equatorial radius (where the metal is thickest) .000226 in. shorter than the polar radius. When it is spinning at 30,000 r.p.m., though, centrifugal force makes the equator bulge just enough to form a perfect sphere...