Word: webs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life-where a man's wealth could be counted on the hoof or his quality measured in whether he carried a sword or a slingshot -but its quality that is baffling to the modern mind. Homeric life was not merely lived but ceremoniously acted out within a complex web of obligations linking gods and men in fatal and final patterns. There is a strong sense of reality in the Homeric world; the poet had a peasant's narrow eye for each man's just portion and place at table. This apparently simple world was ruled...
...August, 1958. Since then, the talks have slowly cleared up a number of small points of procedure and technical detail. In these series of talks, such minor matters have taken on a significance that seems unwarranted on the surface of things; but to each is attached an intricate web of political considerations...
...latest instrument, built in 1958, is an intricate web of wires and spidery, movable arms that covers nearly five acres of ground and can count colliding galaxies that are 8 billion light-years away...
...most successful film score since. Bridge on the River Kwai, rendered in apocalyptic sound. Viennese-born Composer Ernest Gold, a veteran of two decades of film scoring (On the Beach and The Defiant Ones), knows better than most of his colleagues how to write a mystery in a web of strings and nostalgia in a flute's falling sigh. The film's haunting theme hints of a talent for better things...
...three substantial impediments before making discernible progress. First, many of them are barely able to articulate complex ideas. Since contemporary society emphasizes facility with words, it is not surprising that the inability to communicate should be characteristics of its "failures." The second barrier the prisoners must overcome is a web of middle and lower class prejudices attaching unjustified associations to many of the words and concepts which they use in the classroom. For example, all mistresses in paintings or novels, no matter what their actual qualities, are instinctively taken to be street-walkers...