Word: distant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these limited goals will tax Carter's formidable skill as face-to-face negotiator and healer of hurt feelings, for the Mexicans believe, with considerable reason, that the U.S. has long treated them with a combination of arrogance alternating with indifference. "Poor Mexico," an old saying goes, "so distant from God, so close to the United States...
...popular picture of the heavens portrayed by most astronomers, Einstein had opted for a stable, unchanging universe; he had managed that feat with a mathematical sleight of hand that involved what he called the cosmological constant. A decade later, after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble had shown that the distant galaxies were all receding from one another and that the universe was indeed expanding, Einstein reversed himself and accepted the fact toward which his original equations had pointed. The cosmological constant, he allowed, was the worst mistake of his scientific career...
Radiating prodigious amounts of energy, they are visible on earth despite the fact that they may be the most distant objects in the universe. Pulsars, or neutron stars, have also been detected; these highly compressed cadavers of massive stars usually signal their existence by their highly regular radio beeps. Even stranger are the giant stars that may have in effect gone down the cosmic drain: those elusive black holes, with gravitational fields so powerful that not even light can escape them. Astronomers have also picked up what may be the echo of the Creation. Coming from everywhere in the skies...
...test of this effect, expanded from the hypothetical elevator into a global picture by his field equations, that finally brought Einstein worldwide attention. General relativity indicated that when light from a distant star passes very close to the sun on its way to earth, it should be deflected by solar gravity, thereby shifting the star's position in the sky. The amount of shift, Einstein calculated, should be 1.75 seconds of arc?a small variation, but one discernible by astronomers of the day. But how could astronomers photograph a star nearly in line with the sun when it would certainly...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ A Jew Today, Elie Wiesel ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank ∙ In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ The Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch ∙ Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan