Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ponderous, granite-grey Chicago Art Institute is harboring a surprise package: an exhibition billed as "Art of the United Nations." The show has nothing whatever to do with the war or with international good neighborliness. Behind the cosmic billing is a carefully selected, beautifully presented variety showing of old (2200 B.C.) and new (1943) paintings, sculpture, textiles, ceramics-37 timeless works of art from 37 nations. It took a solid year of planning, promoting, wangling* to round up this multimillion dollars' worth of fine art, mostly from U.S. collections. Some of the best items...
...Tesla induction motor, which scientists generally have hailed as the basis of "our electrical power era" (TIME, July 20, 1931), but also with discovering the basic principles of the radio, radar, electronic tube, X ray, fluorescent light, electron microscope, rocket bomb, etc. All these and the discovery of cosmic rays besides, says O'Neill, were inspired by basic Tesla findings. Less ardent admirers do not go so far: they classify many of Tesla's "discoveries" as mere hunches, lacking in scientific documentation. A fantastically secretive worker, Tesla published little specific data on his researches...
...sort of penguin-English. "Being a bird," he clacked, "of course I think we are the form in which Life is best expressed." The explorer soon came to realize that this was no mere "bird-fancy." For the penguins devoted their lives to developing (with the help of cosmic rays) mystically minded super-penguins and super-seals who were in tune with the infinite...
...intense excitement of the scenes in which Joseph was cast into the pit, then sold into slavery (Young Joseph), or the intensity of the amorous scenes with Potiphar's wife (Joseph in Egypt). But while it is written with the deliberately pedantic humor in which Mann casts his cosmic irony, Joseph the Provider is so lucid that the magnificent flow of its prose may well be overlooked...
...autocrat to his finger tips, Cardinal O'Connell was a remote figure to most of the 23 million U.S. Catholics. But they heard him often. He thundered against Hollywood ("the scandal of the nation"), Albert Einstein's theories ("authentic atheism, even if camouflaged as cosmic pantheism"), radio crooners ("whiners crying vapid words"), mercy killings ("suffering is the discipline of humanity"), morals in general ("women are becoming masculine and the men effeminate"). He denounced immoral styles, told his priests they might refuse Holy Communion to women with lipstick...