Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ends with Charles' apparent suicide in the mid-'60s. This is the Age of Anxiety's baroque period, and Charles and Julian experience many of its significant furbelows: postwar empiricism at Oxford and Cambridge, uneventful military service, the California beat scene and damp marches through England for nuclear disarmament...
they fell like damp ashes...
...asked in an anxious voice, 'What about them? Still alive?' The white-haired man replied, 'Yesterday they were.' Arriving at a piece of low, damp land near a stream, Nam Khom stooped and called to the others: 'You see? You see?' The crippled farmer let his crutches drop and sat down for a better look. On the surface of the damp earth, he saw traces of earthworms. He uttered a low cry: 'They are alive! Alive! This earth is not to be abandoned.'" The farmers' faith is described...
...Voyce admits that there are still a few kinks in his craft-the "really shoddy" mufflers, a laminated-wood prop that deteriorates rapidly in damp climates, a carburetor that gums up in salt water, and the vehicle's tendency to eject its driver over the bow when it is stopped quickly in water. But he expects to have the troubles ironed out in time to manufacture 10,000 Spectras in 1970 and claims already to have orders for 8,000. "People literally get freaked out by the Spectra," he says, and prophesies that one day "the Hovercraft will...
...vestments designed by Matisse, and the Met's Anna Moffo sang sacred music at what may well have been the first midnight Mass at Sainte-Chapelle since the time of Louis XIV. It was celebrated in relative comfort. Leaving no detail to chance, Shriver had ordered the usually damp and chilly 13th century chapel to be heated two days in advance...