Word: wound
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...qualifications and more: astonishing erudition, an edgy style, the wound of Jewishness and a bow of courage. He speaks four languages. He began publishing with two commanding achievements: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (1959) and The Death of Tragedy (1961). Now he has found the absolute essential for a critic: a commanding idea. That idea is the breakdown of language. As he puts it, the "syntheses of understanding which made common speech possible no longer work." Today, Steiner notes, vast domains of meaning are ruled by nonverbal languages such as mathematics or symbolic logic; those who live beyond the veil of science...
...does not much like. It was probably not entirely accidental that he forgot to bring his discus with him to the meet; his wife discovered it lying on the floor of the family car and rushed it out to the field. Randy resignedly trudged over to the throwing ring, wound up and sailed the discus 213 ft. 9½ in. - 3 ft. 3½ in. farther than any American had ever hurled it before and barely 2 in. short of the world record held by Czechoslovakia's Ludvik Danek...
...always, spring training wound up with a flurry of activity. To cement their porous infield, the New York Yan kees purchased Dodger John Kennedy, who made only eight errors in 125 games last year; Kennedy committed two booboos in his first game for the Yanks. The Baltimore Orioles shipped Pitcher Steve Barber, a 20-game winner in 1963, back to the minors; the New York Mets astonished practically everybody by farming out veteran Centerfielder Johnny Lewis, their No. 1 hitter (at .387) during the Grapefruit League season, replacing him with Rookie Don Bosch-who batted .147 this spring...
...words of the shooting via an AP ticker. Some immediately began jotting down notes of their personal impressions-which triggered bitter anger in others. Salinger, stricken to "a semi-coma," quickly organized a poker game, played blindly and madly during the entire nine-hour flight back to Washington, wound up winning $800 and "was appalled...
Furthermore, city planners often condemn Reston by judging it aesthetically as some sort of pastoral anachronism. The automobile is missing; Simon has carefully wound his parking areas behind the houses and the town center. But to the planner, this seems a negation of the automobile's existence. And the Lake Anne center, with its yellow brick walls and walks and clay chimneys reflected in the lake looks too much like an Italian fishing village to belong in the age of plastics, steel, and pre-stressed concrete. To some urban designers, Reston appears to deny the visual, as well...