Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thin Line...
...shocking thing about the White House transcripts [May 13] is that they reveal the President to be a man so absorbed in denning the thin line between illegality and immorality that he has lost sight of the fact that both are equally unethical...
...plates inlaid with gold. The earlier goldworking cultures of Peru used hammered sheets as their basic material, but the Colombian artisans preferred to cast their images from gold. They were masters of the lost-wax technique, whereby a model of clay and charcoal was formed and then covered with thin sheets and threads of finely worked beeswax; this was mantled with clay and dried, then heated, so that the wax ran out of the mold and molten metal could be poured in to take its place...
Having learned about important differences between English and American education--in England students begin specializing around puberty--I still think Sir Charles's solution runs pretty thin. Even if it has some substance the problem of humanizing technology runs deeper than the universal enforcement of General Education requirements. Besides, it's still not clear to me how anyone's simply understanding the Second Law of Thermodynamics would relieve the devastation of a life riveted to the assembly line at Lordstown...
...MONTHS ago an unknown American Man of Letters and Scientist named Robert Pirsig, an academic outcast, a thin and dishevelled middle class American who rides a BMW and makes a living writing technical manuals, published a first novel entitled Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The book is a major signpost on the cultural road we have been glancing at, a massive imaginative inquiry into technology, the philosophical foundations of science and their bearings on American life. It uncovers and explores certain important hinges that lie rusted in the region of unexamined values and beliefs...