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Next step is to combine the three colored images in the eye of the viewer. The combining is done with two "dichroic mirrors": plates of glass with one surface covered with a thin layer of a colorless, transparent substance. Because of the special way in which this combination affects light of different wave lengths, each mirror reflects only one color. The other two colors pass right through...
...only bright spot in an otherwise colorless weekend for those who stay in Cambridge tomorrow will be the Union Smoker, which will center around a television broadcast of the Yale game. Dates are invited to the Smoker and cider and doughnuts will be served...
...full up now-only eight standing inside-I can't take any more,' chants the bus conductor, with all the complacency of a Calvinist separating the few elect from the multitudes of the damned...Justice and discipline are perhaps producing a new civility, hard, graceless and colorless, but safe...
...enemies. He was accused of being arbitrary, tactless and indecisive, and was variously described as 'Chubby Cheeks," "Fumbling Fletch," and "Bottleneck Bowron." He was even attacked by Cafeteria Owner Clifford Clinton, a vociferous reformer and the man who spent $72,000 to put Bowron into office. "Drab . . . colorless ... far from inspiring . . ." cried Clinton. "We were misled . . ." Clinton ran against him;-and lost...
Rusk goes over the tedium and labor of Emerson's lectures with great detail. A reader not familiar with Emerson's writing might get from this book an impression that he was a rather colorless ex-clergyman who lived a good but uneventful life in a dull New England town, and that the chief distinction of his career was that he successfully avoided being monopolized by any person or idea...