Word: alphabets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letters to Cicero, Julius Caesar employed a cipher in which each character was replaced by one standing three places down the alphabet-thus D stood for a, E for b, F for c, etc. Mary Queen of Scots wrote conspiratory messages in cipher; when intercepted and interpreted by England's first great cryptanalyst, Thomas Phelippes, they helped bring Mary to the chopping block. In the U.S., Benedict Arnold employed several codes, including one that was keyed to Volume I of the fifth Oxford edition of Blackstone's Commentaries...
...Telegrams at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., announced the existence of the new comet. It was the 14th discovered during 1967, one more than the previous yearly record of 13. In honor of the discoverers, the Smithsonian named it Ikeya-Seki 1967n (the 14th letter in the alphabet). The new Ikeya-Seki, the Smithsonian reported, had a brightness of only the ninth magnitude and would gradually fade away without becoming visible to the naked...
...from the Carnegie Corporation to reanalyze data from 67 major studies on reading, to visit over 300 classrooms, and to interview proponents of various theories on the teaching of reading. She concluded that children learn to read better when taught by a "decoding method.'- on which emphasizes learning the alphabet and breaking the codes of written words in their first few years of instruction...
...both the sun and moon." Historical sequences disappear. Dylan discovers America, collides with a bowling ball and a girl from France, and, as he leaves, meets Columbus in search of land. Historical reference points dissolve in a montage. Einstein apeaprs disguised as Robin Hood, sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet. "With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves/ let me forget about today until tomorrow...
Most singles know that a single man cannot be a thing of beauty and a boy forever and that a single girl is like a single letter in the alphabet, waiting to mean something to someone. Even the most swinging single, who has been insisting "Not yet," inevitably crosses a watershed when the question becomes a panicky "Is it too late?" Ultimately, the singles devoutly wish that they weren...