Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting for the play, Will Steven Armstrong has designed a black backdrop with dim squares, in front of which are five rough-sculptured set-pieces of pipes, rods, and wire mesh (three of them movable) that admirably convey the wildness, ruggedness, grimness, and remote time of the tale. His costumes, too, are always apposite...
...beastly work. Off Cape Cod, the Atlantic is a battleground for the warm Gulf Stream and the cold Labrador Current, and the weather veers from dim to foul. Strong subsurface currents swirl at unknown depths below. But the crew of Atlantis was both skilled and lucky; photos taken a half-mile north of Contact Delta showed a string of debris on the bottom. The pictures picked out hundreds of pieces of twisted metal, a shredded copper cable, a half-pint milk carton standing peacefully right side up, and a white Navy coffee mug lying on its side. Nothing...
Painful Brilliance. Manufactured by the Old Delft optical company in Holland, Dr. Bouwers' night eye was originally designed to brighten the dim pictures on doctors' fluoroscopes, to give a good look at a patient's internal organs without the need for powerful and dangerous doses of X rays. But soon after the first tests, the military showed an understandable and urgent interest. For the night eye needs no artificial light source, like the snooperscopes of World War II, which merely detected the reflections of infrared light shot out by the scopes themselves. The Dutch device is built...
...many Protestants, the Jesus of the Marburgers will seem rather dim and unfamiliar. For example, they reject the childhood narratives in Luke as fictitious and myth-laden, deny the accuracy of any of the Evangelists' chronologies. Of the detailed Passion narratives, they accept as historically sound the bare facts that Jesus went to Jerusalem at the end of his ministry, supped with his disciples sometime toward Passover, stood trial before Pilate and was crucified. Bultmann's disciples also reject, as a creation of the post-Easter church, any saying of Jesus that refers to his filial relation...
Tokyo's Kabutocho, accustomed to the prewar idea of stocks held closely by the Zaibatsu financial combines, at first scoffed at Okumura, and occupation forces took a dim view of his plan to set up investment trusts that would operate somewhat like U.S. mutual funds. But Japan's amazing postwar resurgence proved fertile ground for Okumura's ideas. "I am the world's most stubborn man," says Okumura, "when I decide that I want something and meet opposition." Many Japanese companies now prefer to sell shares to raise money rather than to ask the once...