Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tired certainly, but much less tired than dim...
Seen from the outside, through the eyes of Stilbourne's dim but eccentric characters, Oliver is just a bright boy with a small talent for music and a chance to rise on the "awful ladder" of the British class system by way of a science scholarship to Oxford. The boy views himself as others do-a mod erate success. It is only in the later episodes that he comes to see himself as Novelist Golding sees him-a moral failure. Sadly, he recognizes that he is one of those who would like to pay anything for a chance...
...fuddled bunglers, sensational charlatans, and uncomfortable professionals. Each has survived a series of tumultuous popular vogues, and each today seems to have found tenuous public acceptance. Out of the black box and darkroom came what may really be the vital art of the moment. Out of the spiritualist's dim salon has emerged what may prove to be tomorrow's scientific revolution. In reaching a toe-hold, each discipline has sacrificed a measure of color and excitement: gone are the horrific lantern shows of the early photographer-magicians, gone too the emphasis psychic investigators once placed on communication with disembodied...
...were most kind to him, that stirred the deepest emotions of rage and confusion in him. Three white people in his life--his one-time master Samuel Turner, Judge Cobb, and Margaret Whitehead -- provoked a moment of warm and mutual sympathy in him. They caused him to feel a dim glimmer of hope, and this short-lived thrill left him more perplexed and enraged than before...
...vest pocket with an "eye" the width of a cigarette; sniper-scopes that can spot a man at 700 yards in the dark; cameras and recorders that turn on when anyone enters a room or starts talking; an ultrasonic wave that can snoop on a conversation by picking up dim voice vibrations in window glass...