Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black hole for a layman taxes the imagination and vocabulary of even the most articulate scientist. The matter that formed the hole has long since disappeared, like Alice in Wonderland's Cheshire cat, leaving behind only the disembodied grin of its gravity. From afar, that gravity has the same effect on objects in space as it did when its matter existed. But closer...
...around it that the star would literally enclose itself. For a celestial body of the sun's mass, the critical radius turned out to be about 3 km (2 miles). If the star shrunk beyond that, it would vanish. This so-called Schwarzschild radius, or event horizon, is in effect the black hole's boundary. Any matter crossing it simply disappears...
...Hawking did not stop there. Following up the work of John Wheeler's student, Jacob Bekenstein, he pointed out that there are important mathematical analogies between the bizarre otherworld of black holes and the familiar physical rules of thermodynamics, notably the idea of entropy-which says, in effect, that the universe is running down like an unwinding clock...
Remember Watergate? John Ehrlichman does, probably somewhat differently from you and me. The former Nixon aide says that the effect of Watergate on the nation is "like pretty girls . . . not entirely good and not entirely bad." Anyone interested in more such pearls from Ehrlichman can tune in on his new 2½-min., five-day-a-week radio commentary, The View from Here, airing Oct. 2 on more than 900 stations. In a promo record, he comments on the upcoming Begin-Sadat meeting at Camp David. Noting that there is only one kitchen that serves guests at the presidential retreat...
...comparable tone of Harvard Yard sneering surfaces whenever Schlesinger seems to feel that Kennedy was threatened. The effect is often tasteless. Staging a counterattack on one of Bobby's anti-Viet Nam War speeches, the Johnson White House "exhumed," as Schlesinger has it, James A. Farley, a distinguished elder of the Democratic Party. Throughout, R.F.K.'s opponents are made to look asinine or worse. Hubert Humphrey "chirruped." On the hustings in 1968, Kennedy is consistently praised for his ability to rouse mass audiences to a pitch of righteous frenzy; Lyndon Johnson, meanwhile, "pounded the podium and shouted about...