Word: halo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...region of Gandhara. The Gandhara artists were imported from the thriving cities of the Near East, and when faced with the problem of inventing a Buddha image, they fell back on the Greek and Roman image of Apollo dressed in a kind of Roman toga. They probably borrowed the halo from the traditional Iranian sun disk that symbolized the heavenly light of Ahura Mazdah. For Buddha's ushnisha-the bump on the top of his head that housed a sort of extra brain that grew as a result of his Enlightenment-they substituted a topknot of extra hair...
...limit,* the closest that a satellite can come to its parent body without being torn to bits by gravitational forces. When the moon passed this boundary, fragments of all sizes began flying off it. Some fell on the earth, heating its atmosphere, churning its surface, forming a halo of dust around it. Any life that existed on earth at the time was probably exterminated. So much moon matter fell on the earth that its high-speed impact changed the earth's rotation...
...dyed in the free water that flows around it. With it goes the sense of its relation, near and remote, the dying echo of whence it came to us, the dawning sense of whither it is to lead. The significance, the value, of the image is all in this halo or penumbra that surrounds and escorts...
...jour today, however; on the hotel's door a tiny sign reads: "Closed for vacation." In another of Sivard's pictures, a Parisian nun is emerging from a Metro station with the frosted-glass peacock's fan of the canopy forming a sort of art nouveau halo behind the good sister's head...
...featureless mass of glowing stars. But the 21-cm. waves reach deep into this stellar fog. They report that vast streams of hydrogen are flowing out of the nucleus, and none are streaming back. Where does the hydrogen come from? One theory holds that it collects from the thin halo that surrounds the galaxy. Another suggests that it is transformed out of some unobserved and heretofore unimagined state of matter...