Word: dimly
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Sensitive to Glare. With a million times the light-gathering power of the unaided eye, the giant telescopes are extremely sensitive to the slightest glare in the sky. Even the light from a city 50 miles away can blot out the dim specks produced on a photographic plate by a distant galaxy or quasar. Smog adds to the astronomer's headache; by scattering ground light in all directions, tiny smog particles can greatly increase the glare over an observatory. Not only the amount, but also the character of the light can affect a telescope's usefulness. Increasingly, mercury...
Free-Choice Shtik. A former assistant dean at Columbia University's engineering school, Barr arrived at Dalton with a dim view of "orthodox" progressive education's emphasis on emotional development. Bumptious and bright, by turns pompous and ingenuous, Barr implemented the trustees' decisions to make Dalton's all-girl high school coed and to more than double the size of the school, to 1,000. The expansion permitted seven kinds of science, ten languages, 20 English courses. "My shtik" Barr said, "is freedom of choice for the students whenever possible...
Hammock and Hatch. The selection is staggering. There is the Cave, a dim-gray cavern carpeted in cowhide, furnished with stalactites, stalagmites and a massive bed that stands 80 feet from the door. For Fanatics there is also a miniature petrified forest in which to frolic. The Round Room, designed without a single corner, features a circular bed with translucent chiffon panels above. At the pull of a silken rope, the panels part, revealing a skylight view of the stars. The Polynesian Room offers a ten-foot hammock, the Arabian Room a floor-level bed surrounded by mirrors...
...Lowenstein and the majority of the "Dump-Nixon" people, the primary issue is still the war in Southeast Asia. "He's making Johnson look retroactively very credible, which is an extraordinary achievement when you think about it," Lowenstein says of Nixon. Lowenstein's view of peace through discussion are dim, considering the American position: "I supported negotiations when they started in 1968," he says. "But the pre-condition in 1968 was that Theiu and Ky had to stay in power. The negotiations seem to depend on the military defeat of the people we're negotiating with...
...them for the first time tonight, and I think I will like it." The three films will be Pull My Daisy, Me and My Brother, and a film commissioned by the American Film Institute about music, which ended up being a self-portrait. Frank shrugs, smiles and the lights dim...