Search Details

Word: suchness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

The death knell of the realistic play is sounded every season, and each season some play refutes it. A Whistle in the Dark is just such a drama. It has the raw, roiling energy of life. It is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace. It states truths about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Fall of the House of Carney | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

The Evolution of Man and Society carries this argument to the next logical conclusion. "We have now learned that intelligence is of many kinds," Darlington writes. "It has to be measured not on one scale but on many." It is in such diversity, in fact, that he places the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethology: History and the Genes | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

For a few seconds one night last spring, the blinding flash of a huge meteor lit up the sky over central Mexico. A short time later, a B57 sped to the scene from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Its mission was to collect any debris that might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Research: Hot Line for Passing Events | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

Nature's brute strength is never more frightening than during a major earthquake. The earth shifts with a sickening sway. Gaping fissures open in the ground. If the temblor strikes a populated area, roads may be torn up, buildings toppled and untold lives lost - as happened in Northeast Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seismology: H-Bombs for Earthquakes | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

Although their science is still in its in fancy, seismologists know that earth quakes are caused by gradual shifts of the earth's crust. As long as such movements are small and unimpeded, there is little danger of a quake. But strains inevitably build up along the fault line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seismology: H-Bombs for Earthquakes | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

Previous | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | Next