Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been very halfhearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticizing it. The E.E.C. is free Europe getting together. Had we some vision like that after the First World War, we might never have had the Second. We couldn't get the whole of Europe, but at least we've got half of Europe free. At least my son does not have to go and fight as his father had to fight. Surely that is the most valuable thing of all, the reason for keeping Europe together . . . I loathe the bureaucratic trivialities...
...mourning was proclaimed, and he was honored as a martyr. After a huge funeral procession in the holy city of Qum, where Motahari had taught at the Faizieh School, one of Iran's leading theological colleges, Khomeini mourned him as "my son, who represented the fruit of my whole life...
...startling ignorance was dramatized by the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant crisis. While the event made plain that Government and corporate experts had not quite leveled with the public about the hazards of nuclear power, it also proved, frighteningly enough, that the experts sometimes did not tell the whole story simply because they did not know it. Joseph M. Hendrie, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said of himself and other officials, as they tried to cope with an incipient meltdown: "We are operating . . . like a couple of blind men staggering around making decisions...
...insatiable, begin to eat, browsing away first at the radial canals, then the borders of the rim, finally the tentacles, until the jellyfish becomes reduced in substance by being eaten, while the snail grows correspondingly in size." At the end, the jellyfish are once again tiny parasites, and the whole cycle begins anew. Which one is the predator, then, and which one the prey? This underwater dance lends Thomas' new book its title and occupies the first essay; its implications echo through all that follows. Life may not be a matter of eat or be eaten; it may boil...
...over again. Begin with music and see what this can tell us about the sensation of thinking." He recommends an experiment, enlisting Johann Sebastian Bach to support his hypothesis: "Put on The St. Matthew Passion and turn the volume up all the way. That is the sound of the whole central nervous system of human beings, all at once...