Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sodium vapor that the Air Force put into the atmosphere will drift with the winds. If it increases the normal air glow, it can be followed, perhaps for considerable distances. A cloud of sodium of known origin picked up by astronomers' instruments in the Eastern states will be a fine way to measure wind velocity at levels that no weather balloon can reach...
...putting any ideas into it, perhaps because I don't have any ideas. Mostly, I have a heart. I don't have any message any more." Do such beliefs lead to ambiguity in his work? Williams' workaday answer: "Life is an ambiguous thing, a floating cloud, something neither black nor white, but eternally grey . . . How then can a man help being ambiguous...
...matter what he happened to be doing, he seemed able to doze off. He might be writing on the blackboard, and then, right in the middle of a sentence, collapse in a cloud of chalk dust for a nap. On such occasions, his pupils made the most of things. Sometimes they tied him to his chair; other times they would simply take French leave-firmly locking the headmaster in as they went...
...while the triumphant networks lord it over admen and sponsors, a celluloid cloud looms threateningly in the West. If TV's entertainment remains mostly live, Manhattan will be its source and Broad way its inspiration. Should TV go to film, the bulk of the industry will shift to Hollywood-as radio did before it. Some pessimists see the day not far off when 70% of TV shows will be movies (currently, about 35% is filmed...
...this naturally makes Airman McConnell seem a bit of a sap as well as a lot of a hero, and strongly suggests that the Air Force itself is just a shining-faced troop of hi-octane Boy Scouts on an overnight hike to Cloud 8. In fairness to the producers, it has to be said that they meant better than they made; nevertheless, The McConnell Story is an instance in which simple human dignity has been clobbered by commercial cuteness...