Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeing Kennedy's applications of words like "crisis," "unity," "national interest," and "discipline," one appreciates how void of content so much of the New Frontier's rhetoric is, how open to interpretation dictated by circumstance. National interest would have been served better if the press had explained what was happening in Cuba--and if the government had not been so sure of its support. Kennedy is equating bipartisanship and achieving a united front with the formulation of foreign policy, an equation that did much to make the Eisenhower era such a blandly unroductive one. He does not see the danger...
...Descartes, void space was nothing and therefore nonexistent. On the other hand, Newton conceived of the length, breadth, and depth of space as innate properties. Since space possessed absolute extension for Newton, he could not accept a finite Universe. Limits to the Universe should imply a meaningless space beyond...
Descartes termed space "indefinite," reserving the word "infinite" to describe a void. In Newton's mind, though, infinity lacked the Cartesian aura of perfection...
...radiator of his car and driving through a storm. Says he: "It gives me a feeling that I am not wasting my time when I drive." "The true painter," declares Klein, "is the one who creates nothing visible." Indeed, he calls his art "a voyage through the void of the immaterial." At times Klein's work becomes so immaterial it does not even exist. In his last Paris show he offered for $600 something called A Zone of Immaterial Sensibility, hors série. It was nothing but the "gallery atmosphere...
...through access to nonsegregated public schools is a right secured by the Constitution to all citizens," said the judges in a roundhouse ruling, "every law or resolution of the Legislature, every act of the Executive, which seeks to subvert the enjoyment of this right, [is] unconstitutional and null and void." At the same time, the court ordered four timorous New Orleans banks to honor checks that the school board had written against its own account, further demanded that the city of New Orleans release to the board $800,000 in withheld funds...