Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paternal. They are just a bit older than we are, even if they have gone around being aged eagles for a very long time indeed. It is, however, a little unfair of them to criticize us for being dull. It is not to be denied that our poets are dim, even the best of them. Yet this is entirely because they have been taught from earliest childhood that Mr. Eliot believes in Tradition, and that it is better in every way to be a good minor poet than a bad major...
...chief means of advancing art was to let his unconscious whisper through his brush. At four, he would rush to his mother for protection from the "evil spirits" that appeared on his drawing paper. With age, he came to feel at home in his dream world of huge, dim forces, and was able to say, with none of the smugness of the dispassionate, that "evil must not be a triumphant or confounding enemy, but a constructive force, a co-factor in creation and development...
...prizes that has dangled just out of reach of the scientists is a method of amplifying light: i.e., increasing the brilliance of a dim "picture." It can be done in the innards of electron tubes, but only in ways that are unsatisfactory. The ideal is a system that will brighten an optical image-with all its lights and shadows-just as sound is strengthened by a public-address apparatus...
...General Electric's Research Laboratory demonstrated the first major step toward licking the problem. On a round screen four inches in diameter they projected in ultraviolet light the image of an ordinary photographic slide. It made a yellowish picture (of three G. E. scientists) that was almost too dim to be seen. Then Cusano fed electric current to terminals on the screen. As the voltage gradually increased, the image brightened until it was clearly visible. No contrast or detail of the original was lost. The strength of the light falling on the screen had remained the same; the increase...
...system is still young, but they suspect that it has great possibilities. One possibility: "picture-on-the-wall" television. A faint image projected by a small TV set would be amplified by electric current supplied to a flat screen. Other possibilities are in photography (taking pictures with very dim light) and in devices for "seeing in the dark...