Nothing in our long-standing friendship would have led me to believe that Chevalier was actually seeking information; and I was certain that he had no idea of the work on which I was engaged.” As to the delay in reporting this conversation, Oppenheimer acknowledged that he should have report...
“Tolstoy famously said ofWar and Peacethat it wasn’t even a novel. In a sense, it’s a total history of that epoch in Russia in a fictional form…It’s very interesting what happens with the novel linguistically. There’s been a study of the French words in the novel, because there...
put away Zoe as soon as she gave him an heir to the throne. But the biographer of Euthymius professes to throw another light on the situation. A rising took place in the provinces, and Leo secured a letter which proved that Nicholas was involved in it. It was in order to avoid the...
paint a psychedelic portrait of partydrunk rapture. It must be an aural illusion but I hear the wah guitar in the right channel sing actual words along to the chorus, especially on the remastered version. And that sustained note which starts at 4:08 and nearly lasts until the end of the...
On top of that are the comments. Comments from first-time commenters, or comments with certain trigger words in them, or comments from certain people, need approval before showing up. At times I feel like Harrison Bergeron, with my phone and its notifications for comments to be approved ...
“How is it that we can get to the moon when we can’t get to the airport?”. Asked American planning scholar Melvin Webber (1920–2006) in a 1973 lecture at the University of Reading, UK (Batty2014, p.30). With this intriguing leading question of fabled words, he enunciated the ...
And with part of the fortune he bought a house with a large garden up at Toft End, the highest hill of the hilly Five Towns, so that Sidney might have the benefit of the air. He also engaged a housekeeper and servants. With the remainder of the fortune he obtained a partnership in ...
That’s because I think of them as two different efforts. I view link building as traditional outreach, which can be measured by close rates and links acquired. You can determine which version of your pitch letter works best or which targets are more receptive. Measurement is crystal clear. ...
I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculous—that consuming a particularly unimaginative information product on a daily basis somehow makes you thoughtful and infor
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX“A Manifestation of Hysteria”I am very distressed, as I assume you are, over the Oppenheimer matter. I feel that it is somewhat like inquiring intothe security risk of a Newton or a Galileo.JOHN J. MCCLOY to President Dwight D. EisenhowerAFTER OPPENHEIMER WAS EXCUSED fro...