Word: angstroms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowry matches Updike's portrayal of Rabbit Angstrom's wife drunkenly drowning her baby in his scene showing the besotted Consul desperately trying to place a telephone call. The beauty, the wordiness, the luxury and the humor of his prose find expression again and again in sentences such...
...angstrom is equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimeter and is used to measure the length of light waves. The word has nothing to do with Angst, but pays tribute to Pioneer Spectroscopist Anders Angstrom...
...With a patience and politeness that astounds me, Harvard undergraduate governments and the more durable CRIMSON have asked for an inch, again and again, and now have been answered with an angstrom--and that on a trial basis...
...center of the crack-up is Harry ("Rabbit") Angstrom. In the small Pennsylvania suburb where he was born and lives, he had been a schoolboy hero, a basketball player of exciting skill. That was the high point of his life. Now, out of the army and in his mid-20s, he has reached a personal nadir. The old hero of the courts works as a demonstrator of a kitchen gadget. His wife is dull, losing her looks, and spends most of her time before the TV set with an oldfashioned. Not knowing what he wants, but hating what...