Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bowdlerized ragtime first appeared on a television show called The Ragtime Era, for the National Educational Television Center. Morath now has 15 half-hour shows, Turn of the Century, in which he mixes snatches of cultural his tory into a formula of songs, monologues and lantern slides. A thin, volatile man, he usually noodles out the music first on the piano, then talks about the men who wrote it and of the day when ragtime was the "folk music of the city...
Smoke settled in the crowded rooms, voices cracked, tempers rose, and then, the hush. The first model. Under the hot white lights she seemed put together of plastic, not flesh; skin dead-pale, so thin that when she swallowed her body trembled with the shock, she strutted and twirled as if a newly wound toy, never perspiring, only glistening prettily. Buyers scribbled on programs: nice cut, good lines, but can it be copied easily? Will it go in Passaic? The press looked frantically for trends: everything old? Anything borrowed? How about a trend toward the old and borrowed? Customers clapped...
...longer contend that there is only one way to a general education." says Dean Alan Simpson of the University of Chicago, which in the heyday of Robert Hutchins held fast to a thin, well-read line of "great books" (still the rule at Maryland's famed St. John's College). Simpson argues that now "people can get themselves educated in all kinds of ways," and that a student who probes almost any subject deeply enough these days is likely to wind up needing more knowledge in a broad spectrum of many other subjects. If this is so, colleges...
...exhaust gases will be deposited more than 80 miles high, up where the air is only one-billionth as dense as at sea level. Once discharged at that altitude, the gases will not fall for weeks or months, and the air in which they will be floating is so thin that a small amount of contamination can have profound effects. Physicists Jerome Pressman, William Reidy and Winifred Tank of Geophysics Corp. of America have calculated that 25 tons of fluorine can scavenge out of the earth's atmosphere all the free electrons that now make long-distance radio communication...
...drink at an oasis, a rifle shot cuts down the guide. It is Sharif who has thus spoken; the oasis is his. Lawrence adroitly talks his way past this crisis and proceeds with Sharif as his new guide and eventual friend. For the remainder of four hours-through thick, thin and thaumaturgy-Sharif stays close to the side of the English Enigma. Women who have seen the picture say that they go away thinking about the fine performances of O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins and so on, but at night they dream about Omar Sharif...