Word: beams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arsenide diode developed by Lincoln Lab Engineer Theodore M. Quist. A less-than-gnat-sized electronic device that generates pure infra-red light when a small direct current is passed through it, the diode turned out to have an extraordinary property: the intensity of the normally invisible infra-red beam could be easily controlled by varying the strength of the current that generates it. Keyes speculated that if his little light beam was visible at any distance, it could be modulated to carry the human voice, or even the more complex frequencies of a television program...
...Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (2, last week...
FICTION 1. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (1, last week) 2. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (2) 3. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (3) 4. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler(4) 5. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (5) 6. $100 Misunderstanding, Cover (6) 7. A Shade of Difference, Drury (7) 8. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton (8) 9. Triumph, Wylie (9) 10. The Cape Cod Lighter, O'Hara...
...Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour - An Introduction, Salinger (2, last week...
...with high politics." The Review ignored only what it considered trivial "except occasionally to reduce a temporarily inflated reputation." Among the reputations it sought to deflate: John Updike's The Centaur ("a poor novel irritatingly marred by good features"); J. D. Salinger's Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (he "deals with the emotions and problems of adolescence, and it is no great slight to him to say that he has not yet advanced beyond them"); Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (an "unconvincing mixture of lively dialogue and incongruous tricks...