Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preposterous anecdote because it gives a picture (sometimes unconscious) of a recurrent American phenomenon-the Utopian colony. Those at Harmony, Pa. or Oneida, N.Y. were founded by followers of deviate religious sects. These new California sectaries around Miller are no exception. Miller, who rivals Dr. Norman Vincent Peale for thin theology, is preaching a doctrine known along Madison Avenue as togetherness. "The ideal community, in a sense, would be the loose, fluid aggregation of individuals . . . It would be a God-filled community, even if none of its members believed in (a) God. It would be a paradise . . ." Prophet Miller seems...
Zealous Recruiter. For 20 years Iowa-born Poet Engle has fanned the thin flame of poetry down on the farm. He is helped by the fact that the university gives advanced degrees-including a doctorate-in creative writing. Armed with this selling point, Engle recruits fledgling poets with the zeal of a Big Ten football coach wooing a high-school halfback. He gets them jobs on campus, finds them apartments, has even supplied pots and pans for their wives...
...frown begins with a line biting deep into the bridge of the broad nose. Thin, pale lips turn thinner, paler. Behind black-rimmed glasses, eyes glow with a suggestion of banked-and therefore controlled -inner fires. The voice takes over from the frown. Deep and strong ("I have always had a commanding voice"), it needs no microphone to help it carry. Questions come slowly, in careful Southern cadence. In the voice, as if measured carefully by the tapping of a finger on a mahogany table, are righteousness and rebuke, sarcasm and sadness, incredulity and indignation. Never is there unrestrained anger...
...Rooney evoked Rooney. But if the tumultuous Rooney was not the debonair Cohan, he was still a sliver off the same shank, and great fun to watch as an outrageously brash song-and-dance man taking a reluctant theater by storm. At 36, Rooney is thin on top and thick at the jaw, but he still exudes boyishness, whether socking home Yankee Doodle Dandy in strutting, arm-pumping style, or getting moist-eyed over the last exits of Cohan's vaudeville teammates-his mother, father and sister. As the other three of the Four Cohans, Roberta Sherwood, James Dunn...
...loses its color when light of another wave length hits it. The Cash men are hard at work building these talented capsules into a "chemical memory" for computing machines. A transparent film impregnated with photochromic capsules can be written upon in coded dots of color by a hair-thin beam of light. A beam of neutral light that does not affect the dots can read them off in thousandths of a second, or a beam of bleaching wave length can erase them. The capsules can be made so small that the entire Bible could be printed in code...