Word: circularity
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...much, but gentle ripples of consequence eventually reach the local newspaper editor, a shopkeeper, a waitress, an "alienated" college professor and his wife Charlotte, who is one of those beautiful, charming, spontaneous nature girls so dear to the hearts of intellectual novelists. The sparse action is accompanied by heavy circular symbolism: the motorcycle wheels, the twister, Charlotte's abandoned whirling dance, bees circling around the half-wit in numbers that ought to discourage any rapist. In the end, the reader is left going around in circles...
...moon near apogee, when the earth's gravitational force was lessened. This recurring bombardment could account for the moon's pock-marked face. Singer calculates that within a few thousand years after the encounter, the moon's orbit decayed from an elongated ellipse into a near-circular path only about 10,000 miles above the earth. At this point, it was in near-synchronous orbit...
Antique counterfeiters also build cupboards from the broad boards in the attics of old houses. To detect these, buyers should check the board ends to see whether they were sawed off with an electrical circular saw, which leaves curved lines, and look for nail holes plugged with plastic wood in places where a cupboard needs no nail at all. Then, says Grotz, there are the "cute little Early American pine three-drawer chests that are only as high as a Victorian commode." They are just that, with the lower doors removed and two drawers fitted into the space where...
...shape of disks 2,000 ft. in diameter, each with a highly reflective, mirror-like face. Using attitude-control jets, ground controllers could position the space mirrors to direct the reflected rays of the sun down toward the night side of the earth. The reflection could illuminate a circular area approximately 220 miles in diameter with nearly twice the brightness of the full moon...
...will Negroes be unable to attain true equality of achievement for a long time. Gordon says that the "excruciating frustration of negritude--engendered by that persistent gap between aspiration and perceived reality--provides a constant goal to leader and followers alike." He sees two possible paths out of this circular dilemma: changing the social structure of the country, or introducing a new criteria of equality, participating democracy, to replace the conventional criteria of wealth, job and social status. Since Gordon considers changing society an impossible task, he sees participatory democracy as the direction of the Civil Rights movement...