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...only other serious objection concerns the unhappy wisp of men who represent the Roman and Volscian crowds, Senators, Guards, etc. and etc. Of course one expects to find the same faces in opposing armies, and one expects "crowds" to be small in number, but unfortunately the mob has a very important part in the construction of the play, since it is Coriolanus' distaste for the common herd which sets the whole plot in motion. But one cannot imagine his being the least bit aroused by the six or seven who, hot from their most recent costume change, are set against...
Deep in the coal country, at Institute, W. Va., 30 newsmen gathered last week to see something new in the way of a chemical plant. From a distance, the $11-million factory looked like many another-a mass of storage tanks, pipes, warehouses, and above it all a thin wisp of smoke. But close up, it was like nothing else in the world. Amid the maze of gurgling pipes and steaming valves, scarcely a worker could be seen. Staffed by only 50 men-mostly chemical engineers-the plant runs continuously, 24 hours per day, with scarcely any need of human...
...Electrons," he points out, "can supply the brains for the control of machinery, respond to light, color, a wisp of smoke-the faintest touch or the feeblest sound. Today, these electrons can follow a chart, a blueprint or a pattern more accurately than the human eye. Some day, they may even respond to smell and taste. Who would dare predict the future? He is a rash man who would limit an art as limitless as space itself...
...first jet ace, circled a MIG pilot who had bailed out of his burning craft and tried to get a good look at him as he floated down. But the helmeted and goggled enemy pilot kept his head hunched down and Jabara could not see even a wisp of hair...
...Times over collective nouns for animals [TIME, June 4]: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 14th-Century romance Sir Nigel speaks of a cete of badgers, a singular of boars, a sounder of swine (when hunted), a nye of pheasants, a badling of ducks, a fall of woodcock, a wisp of snipe...