Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final years Einstein was an outspoken foe of McCarthyism, which he felt was an echo of the turbulent events that had preceded the downfall of Germany's Weimar Republic. He urged intellectuals to defy what he considered congressional inquisitions, even at the risk of "jail and economic ruin." He was widely denounced, and Senator Joseph McCarthy called him "an enemy of America." In his last public act, Einstein joined Bertrand Russell and other scholars in a desperate plea for a ban on all warfare...
...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, and in a sense from nowhere at all, these faint microwaves appear to be the lingering reverberations of the Big Bang, the cataclysmic explosion in which the universe was apparently born 15 billion to 20 billion years...
...time blurs reality, the Society remembers each goal against as a "perfect shot" by the opponent, not as a miscue. Claims of "I was screened," or "My defenseman backed into me," or "the forwards weren't back-checking" echo through the meeting hall...
...music formulas. Costello's voice may not be beautiful, but it's strong, warm, and conveys angry emotion better than any other popular singer's today. There's no need for it to be buried in muddy mixing, bounced from one stereo channel to another, or treated with synthetic echo...
Attempting to fit something as huge and varied as American culture onto a narrow Freudian couch is bound to strain credulity. Appropriated for sociology, the term narcissism sometimes seems as frustratingly insubstantial as Echo, the nymph who taunted Narcissus by repeating his words. Yet undoubtedly Lasch is on to something quite real. The est-thetes, the self-accredited sex therapists, the purveyors of cosmic consciousness and Buddhamatics, the pathetic zombies of Jonestown are not figments. Narcissism may not be a constant or universal disorder, but it is hard to deny that the horizons of millions of Americans have become...