Word: unfoldment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many athletic skills as winning the decathlon. Ideally, the safety man must have the speed of a sprinter to keep up with whippet-fast backs and ends as they break for passes. He must have the wit to diagnose plays in advance, the instinct to follow them as they unfold. He must have the strength and guts to hurl himself head-on at a 230-lb. fullback. And he must learn to live with the chilling reality that as the last line of defense, every time he makes a mistake the enemy gets six points. In the N.F.L., the safety...
...stated explicitly in that time. His film bears a heavy load of symbolism, of scenes such as the one in which swinish revelers set fire to one lavish apartment and then reel off drunkenly to another. Visions of a society's dying past and corrupt present unfold themselves long after the film is over. It is not society, however, but Actress Daniel's journey from innocence to disillusion that is the core of the story, and her thoroughly convincing portrayal ensures that the viewer's most vivid memory is of the girl...
...Atlee Burpee Co., the world's largest mail-order seed house. To spread the joys of gardening, Burpee each year mails out 4,000,000 copies of his catalogues, which bloom with richly flowered prose, amaze with promises of something "never before seen in asters," and unfold the mysteries of celtuce (a celery-lettuce combination) and midget watermelon...
...Ironically. Scientist Julian praises grandfather's prose, while Stylist Aldous praises his pedagogics. Without much help from pedestrian Author Bibby, who bears down too heavily on Huxley's role as an educational reformer, the book crackles with examples of Huxley's wit as his other careers unfold-physician, biologist, lecturer, theological controversialist. The greatest "scientific humanist" of his age, Huxley was once tempted to become a brewer in Australia, an artist and a poet-though Huxley's quoted lines on the death of Tennyson prove nothing but that he had read Tennyson and knew...
Bureaucracy of Death. Except for the record of horror they unfold, the chapters that follow might serve as codicils to Parkinson's Law on bureaucratic IN-box fighting. One bureau wanted to save able-bodied Jews for munitions work; another wanted to slaughter them to the last man, woman or child. Bales of barbed wire were stacked in supply depots; yet Hoess finally had to send out scavenging patrols to filch what he needed...