Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard man got up and started to leave. "You know what this stuff is?" he asked as he trundled by. "It's devolution. Spawned in the hillbilly hinterlands and the African jungle. And sustained by the gathered momentum of Sound. Sound and Motion--a sense narcotic to dispel the dim and Damoclean shadow of reality...
...dim streak across outer space exploded on man's consciousness in a pro fusion of meanings. To the three young University of Alaska scientists who be came the first Americans to see it, the Soviet satellite appeared "like a star and brighter than Jupiter." To Washington's Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, it was a partisan reason for proclaiming "a week of shame and danger." To Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, it meant a frenzied call for a special session of Congress. To retired Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, it was merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds...
Scientist Masevich loosened up a little, telling how the authorities pulled a surprise test on her tracking system. The Soviet air force sent a jet plane flying high with only one dim navigation light, making like a Sputnik. The Soviet Moon-watch picked it up successfully, and four days later the real Sputnik took to space...
...than 5,000 contemporary paintings, and of them perhaps one in ten might interest future ages. Standout shows within the show were a collection of pale and wan but faultless abstractions by Britain's Ben Nicholson, the weightless, rainbow fantasies of France's Marc Chagall, and 30 dim-dusty canvases by Italy's Giorgio Morandi. Nicholson and Chagall were considered stiff contenders for the 300,000-cruzeiro ($3,780) grand prize. After the usual frenzied politicking, the 17 international jurymen settled on Italy's Morandi...
...favorite diversion of amateur astronomers is to watch the moon eclipsing a star. When the star touches the moon's jagged edge, it winks out all at once with no preliminaries. Even the delicate instruments of professional astronomers cannot detect the slightest trace of dimming or wavering. But if an astronomer on the moon were to watch the earth eclipsing a star, he would see a different performance. The star would grow dim and reddish like the setting sun, and its light would be bent by refraction in the earth's atmosphere, making the star appear to shift...