Word: entering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frog to a Phoenix. Visitors are caught up in a carnivalesque March of Progress from the moment they enter. At the door, they find that their bodies have been sighted by an electric eye, which in turn triggers the computer-generated voice that welcomes them in a deep monotone. They may be approached by R.O.S.A. (Radio Operated Simulated Actress) Bosom, a roving electronic robot who actually appeared with live performers in a 1966 London production of The Three Musketeers (R.O.S.A. played the Queen of France...
Members of the University have previously been able to use books inside the library without signing them out. Under the new system, which will be like the one now used in Lamont, only library staff members will be able to enter the reserve section, and all books will be signed...
Bushy-bearded Yippie leader Jerry Rubin, a major figure in the demonstrations, was led from the House Office Building by police for the second time in one day. He was evicted earlier when he tried to enter the hearings wearing a bandolier ribbed with live bullets...
...largest plants. Yet it is more than a plant and more than a relic. With huge trunks soaring hundreds of feet into the sky, a forest of Sequoia sempervirens is a life unto itself, binding a despoiled planet to its pristine past. As California Naturalist Duncan McDuffie said: "To enter a grove of redwoods is to step within the portals of a cathedral more beautiful and more serene than any erected by the hands...
...this Russia, Solzhenitsyn's novels are both painful and healing. They expose every layer of Stalinist repression. And they are addressed, above all, to Russia and her people. Solzhenitsyn's world is one of almost private Russian concern and grief, which no Westerner may lightly enter or vulgarize in glib anti-Communist terms. Those who have not been through the agonies of the camps, the shocks of alternating liberalization and repression can scarcely pass judgment. This is why Solzhenitsyn did not want his work published abroad, lest it be abused for political purposes...