Word: swirls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intellectual life has become increasingly specialized; as Editor-Critic Irving Kristol remarks, it is no longer easy for the all-purpose sage to dash off a tract on economics or morals without highly specific knowledge. A case in point u Viet Nam. The current swirl of protest may be useful in encouraging the makers of U.S. policy to sharpen and define their views, but it is also heavily uninformed, riddled with emotional cliches and misunderstandings of both Asia and Communism-a throwback to the oversimplicities of the 1930s. Many intellectuals pounced on Viet Nam almost with relief, because it once...
Clare Boothe Luce was not born a Republican; she watched the Republican party swirl around her and settle in her lap. She states boldly that she voted for Al Smith in 1928 and campaigned for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932; but she has been a Republican of various stripes since that time. In fact, Mrs. Luce was twice elected to Congress as a Republican from Connecticut in heavily Democratic years. Her election under the Republican standard and later service as an Eisenhower ambassador to Italy have endeared her to the GOP, and with these credentials she set out upon her valiant...
...Pook's Hill, Washington's new four-lane Capital Beltway, which circles the metropolitan area, intersects the six-lane Route 355 and the four-lane Route 240; and the designers have ingeniously arranged it so that all three superhighways come together at once in a magnificent swirl of concrete spaghetti. Tourists tend to think their frustration is their own fault; it is all but inconceivable to the average mind that on such an elaborate interlacement of roads, eastbound traffic on the beltway cannot go north on Route 355; westbound beltway traffic cannot go south on Route 355; southbound...
...speak a word of English, soon found himself in an American living room being looked over by a suspicious father. To get rid of him, the daughter craftily telephoned an Italian butcher, who blasted Giacometti over the phone for being a dirty old man. The show succeeded in a swirl of mistaken identities, mistaken overcoats and wonderful long tirades in uninterrupted Italian...
Brief, high-power pulses of electrical energy throbbing through intricate circuitry are the heartbeats of modern radar. But they are the bane of many an electronics engineer. Sometimes the high-frequency currents that are crammed into a pulse swirl through a simple resistance as if it were also a small coil (inductance); sometimes the pulses treat the resistance as if it were a capacitor. Either way, coil or capacitor, those unwanted effects introduce annoying problems...