Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breach with China. They have successfully resisted the temptation of crowing-at least in public-over the fulfillment of their earlier warnings that we were playing with fire in wooing the Chinese. What Americans had not been able to achieve by the expenditure of millions of dollars -seen and unseen-has been accomplished for them at one stroke by Chinese folly...
...Says Quarterback Meredith of the picture, in which he was being hit from behind by a tackler, unseen except for his hand: "I guess I looked a little spooky out there. I don't remember the play. But I remember plenty of times when I could have used three hands-or one good...
Buying Without Looking. The situation has given rise to a dangerous new breed of editorial irresponsibility: the purchase of shows sight unseen. Last spring, Packager Don Sharpe sold Mr. Lucky to CBS; at the time he had neither cast nor pilot-only a script that was later discarded. Independents can sucker networks into financing even the shabbiest of productions. NBC spent $1,300,000 to bankroll 26 episodes of a dreary filmed comedy called Love and Marriage, managed to get some of its money back only by plopping the show into a favorable time (Mon., 8-8:30 p.m. E.S.T...
...different theory is attributed to a prominent Soviet scientist, who feels that "the unseen side of the moon is considerably more monotonous than the side turned towards the earth." Several American astronomers share this opinion, which stems from a speculation that the earth's gravitational pull has distorted the near side...
...drawn to the "Futurists." with their sprung rhythms and staccato, telegraphic style. But in many ways he also harks back to the English romantics. With them-Blake, Shelley, Keats-Pasternak sees nature as the handwriting on God's wall, or at least as the outward sign of an unseen and perhaps mystical order of things. And with the romantics, Boris Pasternak shares the belief that the creative imagination is itself divine, sharing in God's own creativity. A famed and difficult poem of Pasternak's, called The Racing Stars, illuminates both style and substance and also reveals...