Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate student in sociology explains, while "his overt behaviorial manifestations" are not warm, his great interest in students indicates otherwise. Nearly all who know him attribute his reserve to "excessive modesty" and shyness. After a few cocktails at a party, one friend jokes, his real warmth begins to glow. Similarly, while he usually speaks with painstaking care, his "Parsonian Prose" colors a bit when he defends Oppenheimer...
...Live All You Can." Over the next half-decade or so, the autobiography's "fadograph of a yestern scene" loses its glow of childhood happiness. But as he marched to the threshold of his middle years, James located himself: "What had I ever been and could I ever be but a man of imagination at the active pitch?" Much like James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the autobiography ends with James ready "to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race...
Three times the Cummings glow has threatened to flicker out when his career seemed to reach a dead end: 1) on Broadway, 2) in the movies, and 3) on television. But last week, at 46, he was up to a candlepower to brighten any mother's eye as he starred in his own Bob Cummings Show (Thurs. 8 p.m., CBS), made a guest appearance with Perry Como, and played host (with his children: Robert, 10, and Melinda, 8) on CBS's Circus Highlights from Madison Square Garden...
...into single oxygen atoms. Normally the single atoms recombine when they come into contact with nitric oxide as a catalyst. Since there is only a tiny trace of this gas in the high atmosphere, they recombine slowly, releasing enough energy in the process to produce a hardly perceptible glow in the night...
Adams House has been repeatedly characterized as the last green glow in the rapidly petrifying forest of gracious living. And those who so characterize it refer to some of these points...