Word: grainedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In Michael Anderson's case, it is a cottage with a sun deck on Sea Island's five-mile stretch of white fine-grained beach whose gentle slope is ideal for her two small children, Sayle, 4, and Jody, 1. Such a beach would be hard to find in all...
When Ranger was 1,300 miles from the moon, other orders climbed the radio beam from California and told the spacecraft to turn on its six TV cameras. Without further fuss the incredible moon photos began to come down in a steady stream. In 1.3 seconds they made the long...
That prominent lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov is a busy but exceedingly thrifty man. During the past decade, in between chasing butterflies, translating Pushkin (TIME, July 31), and writing his brilliant, cross-grained fiction, he has been bringing to market carefully supervised English translations of his own early novels, which he wrote...
From the welter of facts, with the passion of a born antiquarian and the insights of a self-made sociologist, Powell has reconstructed the intense pulling and hauling of an early American community that was, "in a real sense, a little commonwealth," able to create "as much of an ideal...
"No two pieces of wood are alike," says Frasconi, who uses a dozen varie ties of pine, some of them knotty, in his work. "Sometimes the wood gives you a break and matches your conception in the way it is grained. But often you must surrender to the grain, find...