Word: vanishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaccine against measles is the finicky nature of the virus. Man alone seems to be its natural host. The only lower species that can be infected with it are monkeys. For years, researchers reported growing measles virus in other animals or fertilized eggs, only to have the submicroscopic particles vanish. This line of attack proved so disappointing that Dr. Enders (Ph.D.) gave it up 20 years...
After a while, Stravinsky's intention-the intention of writing purely abstract music-wins out, and the images vanish. What remains is a sense of irony or of elegy. The listener's mind wanders, but a foot begins to tap, a hand to twitch in time to the music. Rhythm alone, motion for its own sake, take over. And that is the clue to what George Balanchine has done by way of choreography. Unlike his previous "neoclassic" collaborations with Stravinsky (Apollo, Orpheus), this work is abstract dance: there are no costumes or scenery and the Greek title, Agon...
...current issue of the Soviet magazine Science & Life sounded a trumpet call for new zeal in the struggle against religion. "Apart from creating the material conditions necessary to have religion vanish," said Science & Life, "the Communist Party has worked tirelessly to employ skillfully these conditions to combat religious superstition." Not skillfully enough, perhaps; though the magazine proudly claims 50 million atheists for Russia back in 1935, it hazards no guess as to how many there are today in the 200 million population, reports merely that the number of believers "is continuing to dwindle." This does not mean, though, "that...
Such emulation has great advantages. It is much easier to run a college which is only a college, not a remedial high school for promising ignoramuses. Nobody at Harvard wants to spend time teaching foreign languages, high school algebra, or punctuation, paragraphing and syntax. If these things vanish from the curriculum there is room for more advanced teaching...
...near future; the place, the U.S.; the heroine, beautiful Dagny Taggart, a stainless-steel executive who runs a transcontinental railroad with the same chilling efficiency she displays in bed with various deserving tycoons. But dauntless Dagny is having troubles. Her railroad keeps breaking down. The best businessmen begin to vanish mysteriously. Oilfields flame in the night, copper mines are destroyed, docks blow skyhigh, steel mills collapse in chaos. Finally Dagny catches on: her fellow capitalists have gone on strike...