Word: countless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the starlight scope's relative simplicity, the Army's Night Vision Laboratory at Fort Belvoir, Va., had to spend countless hours and $20 million on the design before it was ready for production. One particularly nagging problem was the difficulty of transmitting the image from one stage to the next without excessive distortion or loss of light. Army researchers, under Electrical Engineer Robert S. Wiseman, known as "Mr. Night Vision" to his colleagues, overcame that hurdle by using fiber optics. These unusual lenses are made up of bundles of extremely thin glass fibers, each of which transmits...
...sportscaster style ("The brasses are taking the theme and running ahead! Folks, this piece is definitely going to go into over time!"). His great contribution to musicology is the "discovery" of P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)?, the last and oddest of Johann Sebastian's 20-odd offspring. As countless amused concertgoers and record buyers know, P.D.Q. is the perpetrator of such neglected works as Concerto for Horn and Hardart, Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, and the oratorio The Seasonings ("Bide thy thyme, now thy subscription's through...
Posturing Polemics. If the first week of the talks is any indication, it will be quite some time before that point is reached. Ten hours of formal negotiations plus countless hours of press briefings and background sessions produced little more than posturing and polemics, a kind of ritual, throat-clearing preamble of insults and accusations. "We are now involved in a major propaganda campaign," said Chief U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman. "But one day they will get tired and get down to constructive discussions...
...department chairmen. These professional scholars now decide who should be admitted to graduate schools and what should be taught there, hold virtual veto power over the selection of their colleagues and often over the choice of the president. They turn out highly homogenized Ph.D.s who in turn staff countless colleges that, instead of pursuing distinct goals, increasingly shape curriculums to get their graduates into the university grad schools...
...vehicle rather than a destination and have the wit to take off something more than the heroine's clothes. Rodney Buckthorne is that ever popular fantasy figure, the artist in goat's clothing, who prances irresistibly through several marriages (his own and other men's), countless boudoirs, the stodgy academic community and the massed roadblocks of commercial hypocrisy. Buckthorne's mortal fatigue may be the result of amorous overindulgence. Then again it may just stem from the fact that he seems to have starred in so many recent comic novels. But Cassill's prose...