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...faint light that comes from the moon, stars or sky glow, which is never entirely absent. This light, bouncing off targets, is focused on a semitransparent screen at the front end of an extremely sensitive electron tube. The screen is photoemissive-it gives off electrons when struck by the faintest light. These photoelectrons are then speeded up by high electrical charges so that when they hit a phosphor (luminescent) screen in the tube, they make a much brighter image. The process is repeated three times, until it produces a picture thousands of times brighter than the starlit target viewed...
...agonizing operations later, the duke commits suicide. Now the widow, whose "only joy is to make others stay out of their own lives," can begin to "enjoy" her two children. "You may do what you want, but not before my death, which is quite near, I feel." At the faintest threat of their self-realization, back to the operating table goes the duchess. Tucci's style and setting may be drawing-room comedy, but life, as he reports it, is theater of the absurd...
...immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in its tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when that mind is imaginative--much more when it happens to be that of a man of genius--it takes to itself the faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the air into revelations...
...star. It dwells on the collected anecdotes and cocktail parties of the lecture tours, the college-girls sedulously seeking Dylan's sexual autograph, the bar-buddy publisher, the biographer (John Malcolm Brinnin) who invited, chaperoned and wrote about Dylan Thomas in America. But these are the faintest echo chambers for the conflict that split Thomas' skull. The torment of the lyric poet is that lyric poetry is essentially a young man's form. The time comes when the world must be seen more through the eyes of wisdom than of wonder. The romantic in Dylan Thomas would...
...takes considerable searching, then, to unearth the faintest promise of competition for today's meet. Indian distance star Pete Wells will offer some interest; he should press Harvard's big three of Ed Meehan, captain Ed Hamlin, and Bill Crain in the mile. Hamlin, after suffering minor injuries for several weeks, hopes to return to the form he displayed during cross-country season...