Word: utterness
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Nixon was serving his country when he brought out evidence against Hiss. It is contemptible to permit someone like Hiss, who was serving another country against all of our interests, to utter his thoughts about our former public servant...
...things. Landuyt's great achievement is the suspense he manages to generate, as if each of his oozing, pulsating interiors were about to pop. This is the magic he is after-to catch the seed just as it is about to burst into life, "the supreme moment of utter standstill and containment before the eruption of form...
...doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from first to last, the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened, and finally transmuted the enterprise." He never dogmatized. "Every sentence I utter," Bohr liked to tell his students, "must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question." Once he defined truth as "something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is unjustified...
...France a week before the Armistice. The music was by Benjamin Britten, a passionate pacifist and conscientious objector during World War II. After the chorus in West Berlin's Deutsche Oper had chanted the final line of Britten's War Requiem, the stunned audience sat in utter silence. Then came volleys of applause. Britten's nonliturgical Mass is fast taking its place as one of the rare modern masterworks for the voice...
...coherence; the improvement may be explained by Burroughs' solemn assurance that much of his writing is dictation from Hasan-i-Sabbah. founder of the eleventh century hashish-eating Ismaili cult, the Assassins. The two most recent books, Novia Express and The Ticket That Exploded, come daringly close to utter babble, according to reports. In these volumes Hasan's dictation is augmented with a "fold-in" technique: pages of the first draft (or of a newspaper, Shakespeare, or whatnot) are taken at random, folded in half lengthwise, and stuck together. This juxtaposition of fragments, says Burroughs, produces a continuous...