Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A brilliant, terrible, autobiographical novel recapitulates the story of the tragic auto accident that broke Author Welch's body but gave him the clarity of a man seeing life for the last time...
...M.I.T. professor who wanted to study a kind of high-flying cloud argued that Norway was the only place he could do it and got a subsidy from NASA. Living with his wife and young daughter in a cottage near Oslo, Geophysicist Giorgio Fiocco, 35, spends sporting days paddling a canoe around the fiord and scientific nights examining "noctilucent" clouds by laser radar. Yale Physiologist Jose Delgado, 50, the man who can make bulls stop charging by planting electrodes in their brains, is off to Moscow, a favored academic watering hole, for a psychology conference...
...recorded a brilliant "guest star" supernova that suddenly exploded one night in the constellation Taurus. Located near the tip of the left horn, the star remained visible even during bright daylight. This same supernova's remains can be seen today as the Crab nebula, a diffuse, glowing gas cloud 3,500 light years away, which continues to expand at 800 miles per second...
...accident itself is described in forceful, fearsome terms. "I heard a voice through a great cloud of agony and sickness," writes Welch. "The voice was asking questions. It seemed to be opening and closing like a concertina. The words were loud, as the swelling notes of an organ, then they melted to the tiniest wiry tinkle of water in a glass. I knew that I was lying on my back on the grass. I could feel the shiny blades on my neck. Bright little points glittered all down the front of the liquid man kneeling beside me. I knew...
...partner) gives us lines freshly fallen silent shroud of snow," important, he gives us his own self-image: "A poet with a one-man band." "I have my bo--oks/And my po--e--try to protect me, he says. Mick Jagger write a 7-stress line Off My Cloud" and resuscitates the blues poetry of Sam Cooke, Otis Red Dog Herskovitz. The Lovin' Spoonful "jump-cut" provocatively among narratives, and interrogatives; such lively imagination no-one demanded or would have appreciated a few years ago. One can see Dylan's influence sifted down to the bottom of the heap when...