Word: boundlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes. On bowed, ladder-like legs, the monster crouches beneath the planetarium's high-arched dome. When the house lights dim in the circular planetarium room, the monster's bright eyes show as points of light reflected from the curved steel ceiling. There, astonishingly real, stretches a boundless universe-a vivid replica of the starbright sky on a clear night...
...crepehangers, to overpopulate his planet and hang on, half-starved until something worse happens. British Biologist Julian Huxley is more hopeful. In his new book, Evolution in Action (Harper; $2.75) Huxley says that man is "not just an animal"; he is something new in evolution, and he has a boundless future...
...said, clings to identity, to location in time and place. The human mind has no identity; it gazes at pure existing and pure creating, and "it knows what it knows when it knows it." It can be found in masterpieces, for masterpieces alone report the ever-unfolding and the boundless Now. But it can also be found in America, which was brought up to believe in boundlessness. America's very geography, said Stein, is "an invitation to wander." With these ideas ringing in his mind, Wilder wrote Our Town. One of the first people he showed...
...company: What happens when the top man dies? Avery Bullard is a driving, domineering boss who has pulled a small family-owned furniture company from the brink of bankruptcy and built it into the giant Tredway Corp., one of the biggest in the industry. He has done it with boundless energy, and at the expense of his marriage. Bullard is a believable if not always admirable tycoon; he lives "as if ... his soul would be measured on a balance sheet where there was no credit for love." But it was not money that he was after. Dollars, Bullard used...
...morning the hunters fled with their captive. All at once, at the edge of a forest, "I stood beside a dark grey rock, twelve feet high." It was the mother. "Her eyes were uncanny, fixed and empty." Oberjohann judged that she "had actually been driven mad by her boundless sorrow at losing her child. I prodded her trunk lightly with my bamboo staff." Dully, she moved away. Next night she destroyed a native village, but Oberjohann never saw her again...