Word: crystal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make molecular structures visible. Stroke had been experimenting since 1963 with new ways to utilize holography. But it was not until about a year ago that he and his colleagues-Maurice Halioua, Venugopal Srinivasan and Raghupathy Sarma-hit upon their potentially revolutionary process. Explains Stroke: "We realized that a crystal, in which the atoms are arranged in a repeating array, can be made to produce a sort of hologram, a three-dimensional display of data. What we've figured out is a way of viewing...
...slay herself by refusing to eat whilst the balance of her mind was disturbed." Neither statement could satisfy those who knew Simone Weil as a philosopher, teacher, factory worker, soldier, writer and friend. Her mind was not a scale to be tipped between sanity and insanity but a fixed crystal that gathered every crucial political and spiritual crisis of her time into a point of devouring intensity. She shattered at the age of 34 attempting that most difficult of 20th century feats-living in the service of an absentee God. For her sufferings and self-denials, Weil has been canonized...
...gaze into my crystal ball, I see Harry Reasoner singing the news with Barbara Walters tap dancing in the background. His rendition of "Earthquake Kills Thousands" is No. 1 on the hit charts...
...hands me a crystal of brown sugar from the breakfast tray...
...offers: "My old friend, it seems to me that you could use a horse. Please use this one." This is characterization of great subtlety, extracting Malory's essence and couching it in terms that are not fixed by time or place. Steinbeck's descriptions can reach the same crystal perfection; a day painted as "dream-darkened" is captured in one adjective...