Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alive; it is merely chemically similar to the giant molecules that cluster in the nuclei of living cells and enable them to reproduce their kind. But he has brought chemistry closer to the day when some resourceful researcher will put together a molecule that can lead a dim, synthetic life...
...only species for whom the disposal of waste is a burden . . . especially when he learns to include himself, living and dead, in the list of waste products." Thus does Author Janet Frame begin a strange book about three wasted lives in a dim world that she calls "the edge of the alphabet." The phrase has a properly demented ring, and because Novelist Frame, in both fact and fiction, has spent some time in asylums, the reader at first thinks he is once more on the now depressingly familiar fictional grounds of a mental institution...
...witnessed the successful test firing of the El Kaher (Conqueror) rocket, built in Egypt with the help of private West German and Italian companies. El Kaher has a range of 360 miles and could land, says Nasser pointedly, "just south of Beirut," i.e., in Israel. There is even a dim possibility of nuclear warheads. In moving up the escalator toward atomic power, Israel, with French help, has built a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor in the Negev near Beersheba. and Egypt has a 2,000-kw. reactor at Inshas, 30 miles from Cairo, built with Soviet and private West German...
...neither in his lifetime nor in the 75 years since his death has the German public got to know him well. Other artists have long admired him; but the very fame of these admirers-men like Emil Nolde, Franz Marc and Max Beckmann-tended to dim his own. Last week the Bremen Kunsthalle was showing an exquisite exhibition of 116 drawings by the artist that Die Zeit calls "the dusty giant of the 19th century," and the story was still the same. The critics raved, but the general public still withheld its cheers...
...people scratch a living from the collectivized soil; most of Albania's farm villages and mountain towns have changed little in the last century. Garbage flows through an open gutter cut in the middle of narrow streets; hawk-nosed men sip Turkish coffee in dim cafés while their women shoulder heavy loads of wood and barrels of scarce water. Along with the traditional poverty are Communist posters plugging Dictator Enver Hoxha's slogan: "Build socialism with a pickax in one hand and a gun in the other...