Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grasp" or "stop" them? The real problem is spontaneity: how to "let go" and "go with" the permanent impermanence. The Zen disciple must destroy his ego-consciousness, until his real self calmly floats on the world's confusion like a pingpong ball skimming down a mountain stream...
...arched overhead, and a voice on a loudspeaker began a countdown. An engineer in a timbered bunker pressed a button; from the explosive-mined dam a yellow curtain of debris belched upward toward the thunderheads. Deliberately, the blasted dam crumbled, and muddy water poured through, first in a thick stream, then in a torrent...
...long-suffering KCOP-TV: he gave the station six days' notice (he had no contract), announced he was switching to Channel 9, which he had only days before characterized as "the Skid Row channel." On his last KCOP shows he laid into KCOP lustily: "I am in a stream of very bad consciousness. Wherefore of late I have lost my mirth, to quote General Trujillo, I want to express my appreciation for the lack of cooperation, the lack of consideration, the lack of even primitive facilities, which have made a man out of me." Commented Station Manager Al Flanagan...
...articulate about "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought not to be tolerated." Novelist Hugh Walpole was once kicked out of Noyes's house for suggesting to one of Noyes's daughters that she read James Joyce's Ulysses. "Filth," said Noyes, to whom the stream-of-consciousness device was nothing less than an emetic for "the entire contents of the garbage can and the sewer...
...each wing tip, take care of roll and yaw. The X-14 can hover indefinitely at any level, supported by the deflected thrust of its engines and balanced by its nozzles. When the pilot wants to fly horizontally, he merely adjusts the Venetian blind so that the gas stream from the engines shoots directly astern. Then the X-14 flies like an ordinary jet plane, supported by the lift of its wings and controlled by its conventional ailerons and tail surfaces...