Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fred Hoyle and his Institute for Theoretical Astronomy, are likely to be told a cautionary anecdote. It is the science don's equivalent of the Little Princes in the Tower. One day, goes the tale, a colleague rushed to Hoyle with the incomprehensible datum that variable star Alpha, though 1,000 times larger than star Beta, was pulsing 1,000 times faster. "Oh, but there's no mystery; the reason is obvious," said Hoyle, and proceeded to explain it. His colleague went away awed, only to burst in again to say the mystery was deeper than ever, because...
...held us spellbound. He translated not only the words but the spirit of his subject. That the class was so successful is all the more remarkable since Hum 3 students are not known to be excited by Greek letters. Traditionally, their concern has rarely gone beyond cramming for an alpha...
Twelve juniors have been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard. Those elected are: Vincent J. Cheng of Currier House and Ontario. Can.: Raphael M. Cohen of Quincy House and Quebec. Can; Roger A. Freedman of Adams House and Los Angeles. Cal: Rohn S. Friedman of Dunster House and St. Louis Park. Minn: John P. Gibbons of Lowell House and Marblehead: Patrick J. Glynn III of Winthrop House and Chicago, III.: Jeffrey C. Herrmann of Quincy House and Clark's Summit, Pa.: Steven A. Kraft of Winthrop House and Princeton. N.J.: Rowell S. Melnick of Lowell House...
...Front. The early drama focused on the north, where the Communist onslaught swirled around some names familiar to many American G.I.s: Camp Carroll, Camp Fuller, Camp Ann, Alpha Two, Alpha Four. It also added something startlingly new to the war: heavy Soviet weapons, including tanks (ranging from light PT-76s to heavy T-54s of World War II vintage), artillery (up to modern 130-mm. guns with a 19-mile range) and even SA-2 missiles. By week's end, as the northern fighting settled down to a wary probing of defenses around Quang Tri city...
...possibly be paramount. It is the fantasy of a relatively passive male who would like the woman to take the sexual initiative or even requires her to do so. Few writers have caught that particular aspect with the exactitude of a speech in British Playwright E.A. Whitehead's Alpha Beta, a corrosive drama about a married pair that death would do well to part. The two characters, Mr. and Mrs. Elliot, are quite past the point of sleeping with each other, but in her proprietary way Mrs. Elliot wonders aloud if Mr. Elliot would consider sleeping with someone else...