Word: gleam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eighth House, until recently but a gleam in the eye of expansion, is fast becoming a tangible if somewhat dubious architectural reality. Judging from recently approved preliminary drawings, Lamont Library and the colossus of Harkness Commons seem to be gaining a spiritual...
Thirty-nine years before the gleam of lanterns from the steeple of Boston's Old North Church warned Paul Revere of approaching redcoats, a short, stocky Anglican divine, clad in near-rags and wasted by dysentery, tottered ashore at Boston Harbor. After convincing one rector that he was indeed a clergyman ("my ship-clothes not being the best credentials"), Charles Wesley, prolific composer (6,500 hymns) and restless younger brother of Methodism's Founder John Wesley, preached a sermon in Christ Church, better known as the Old North Church...
...does a blacked-out city look like to a modern reconnaissance airplane, or to the computing ego of a guided missile boring down from space? Answer: if viewed with up-to-date infra-red equipment, it stands out like a neon sign. Its smokestacks shine like lighthouses; its highways gleam like long bright lines. Nothing can be securely concealed if it is a few degrees warmer or colder than other things around...
...will make love to you-to relieve the enormous solitude which I carry about with me. I do not like myself, and sometimes I do not like you; but there are moments when our two unfortunate souls seem to cling to the same spar in a gleam of sunshine, free of the other wreckage for a moment." "My pleasures are music, conversation, the grapple of my intelligence with fresher ones. All this I can sweeten with a kiss, but I cannot saturate and spoil it with fifty thousand . . . Beware. When all the love has gone...
What began as an angry gleam in Harry Cohn's eye now glows from the world's screens. The star's name: Kim Novak...