Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leeds's noted Chemist Frederick Dainton to Swansea's Novelist Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis. But not all redbrick dons are happy with their "exile" from cozy Oxbridge. Novelist Amis himself is shifting soon to Cambridge. Says Nobel Prizewinner Cecil Frank Powell, head of Bristol's topnotch (cosmic rays) physics department: "We've got Cambridge licked in our department-but Cambridge nevertheless has something we can never match...
...Affluent Society. A big-picture thinker of considerable stature (6 ft. 8 in.), Galbraith has, since the inauguration, been making himself useful in Washington as a word man, supplying Kennedy speeches and other New Frontier documents with what he describes as "touches of the cosmetic or the cosmic." Ceylon: Frances Elizabeth Willis. 60, currently Ambassador to Norway. Stanford Ph.D. ('23) Frances Willis was the Foreign Service's first career woman to become an ambassador (to Switzerland in 1953), will find in Ceylon another woman who has risen high in a normally male domain: Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow...
...barrenness is matched only by his reproductive fecundity, seduces his own secretary, one of his Russian colleague's assistants (with whom the Russian is secretly in love, naturally), and an American expatriate living in Moscow whom Rennet is about to marry at the book's less than cosmic finish. With the exception of several vague references to the peaceful universality of science, Far Meridian is nonideological...
...they do not agree why this is happening or how it started. The simplest explanation, the "evolving universe" or "big-bang" theory, is that a few billion years ago, all matter in the universe was concentrated in a relatively small volume of space. Then a vast explosion scattered the cosmic material, which formed into galaxies and fled into emptiness...
...questioner still has received no reply, he usually provides his own answers-to the first question a smile, to the second a nod. But British Author Burgess is neither a smiler nor a nodder. At 43 he is still banging noisily on God's door, insisting on cosmic answers...