Word: wood
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...various pretensions, neuroses and complexes in sometimes nightmarish forms. But just about anything could set off Artzy's imagination. A Nude with a Snood is his interpretation of an unfathomable phrase overheard at a cocktail party; a primitive piece of sculpture called Connecticut African came from bits of wood picked up in the barn of his Connecticut farm. Artzybasheff's deep hate of tyranny is exemplified in the show by the extraordinary swastika shapes into which he twisted his caricatures of the Nazis. Above all, his humor and joie de vivre are revealed in countless ways, including...
...Peace Society, thought he saw within his own life's span an end to war. He exulted: "Its days are nearly numbered"-and died, 17 years later, of what his obituarists called heartbreak, as his fellow Americans headed into World War I and death in places like Belleau Wood. Trueblood was in the tradition of a thin but spiritually pure stream of philosophical pacifism that has run through Western society since the rise of Christianity, even though the Christian ethic generally holds to the Augustinian belief in the "just" war. But pacifism has usually found its firmest hold only...
...human can barely hear it. The sound from clapping hands has overtones that get up to the high frequency, but overtones have little volume or carrying power, which means that the sound must be emphatic and reasonably close to the switch. The sound of dropped china breaking on a wood floor will not do, according to lab tests, but the second movement of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons will-if played on an absolutely first-rate, perfectly tuned hi-fi system. So will the telephone, if it is set on "loud" and the switch is within three feet. Before...
From the National Football League, there's Mike Pyle, the Yalie who plays center for the Chicago Bears, Gary Wood, the stubby quarterback who went from Cornell to the New York Giants, and Yale's Chuck Mercein, who kicks field goals and fills in at fullback for the Giants...
Harvard Medical School is spiritually as well as physically removed from Cambridge. Most happy undergraduates love the College because of the tremendous freedom it allows them to explore Harvard's enchanted wood. No doubt, you would expect even more freedom when you embark on a graduate program at the Medical School. Not so. You are officially an undergraduate for all of the four years it takes you to get an M.D., and you will be treated accordingly. In place of the nonchalance of the College, you will encounter a regimentation reminiscent of high school. For its first two years, your...