Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...effort to learn what goes on inside the mouth when people chew, drink or swallow, Dr. Samuel Adams II, 28, and his associates at Rochester, N.Y.'s Eastman Dental Dispensary, have been bugging the bridgework of volunteers with tiny radio transmitters fitted into dummy teeth. Crammed inside each electronic tooth are a transistor, an induction coil, two capacitors, a resistor and a hearing-aid battery- all miniaturized items developed by the Air Force. Once the radio denture is in place, the subject enters a Faraday cage, a metal-mesh enclosure that blocks out most outside electrical disturbances...
When God spoke to man centuries ago, it was far easier to believe that the sun stood still or water turned into wine. But what is science-minded man to make of the Bible? How can he extract its real meaning for today from a hard-to-swallow supernatural framework? These are not easy questions, and lately they have been getting a rather hard answer from Dr. Rudolf Bultmann's Marburg Disciples (TiME, June 21), who dominate German theology the way the Russians rule chess. They call their answer "the new hermeneutic...
Though Pop artists shun identifying the social satire in their work, Indiana admits that he thinks "it is pretty hard to swallow the whole thing about the American dream. It started from the day the Pilgrims landed, the dream, the idea that Americans have more to eat than anyone else. But I remember going to bed without enough...
...965A Madison Ave. at 75th. The paintings of an English realist making his U.S. debut tell a tragic story of man and nature. His many windows speak of emptiness, his street scenes of dreary sameness, and his people are dull blotches in a vivid-hued environment that threatens to swallow them. Through...