Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening. Ahead of him, moving at a maddeningly slow pace, was a prowl car manned by Officers John DeSimone and Vito Pontrelli, on the lookout for traffic violators, drunks, and the angry brawls that often mar a summer's night in a Negro neighborhood. In the stifling heat, Smith grew impatient and imprudent. Alternately braking and accelerating, flicking his headlights on and off, Smith tailgated the police car. Finally, after a quarter-mile of tailgating, Smith tried to swing past the police. They cut him off. Who the hell? . . . Goddam . . . Son of a bitch! There was a short scuffle...
Spraying seedlings with chemicals to control the plant hopper would have been prohibitively costly. Instead, Harpaz turned to the virus itself. Further research revealed that it was extremely sensitive to heat, ceasing all reproductive activity within the plant hopper when the temperature reached 76°F. To Harpaz, this suggested a simple solution: instead of in early April, hybrid corn should not be sown in Israel until late May. Thus when the seedlings emerged early in June, he reasoned, the few viruses left in the plant hoppers' salivary glands would be too sluggish to infect the corn...
...work in which Shure's intellectual approach worked the least was Chopin's Sonata in b flat minor, Op. 35, the one that contains the famous Marche funebre. One of the composer' masterpieces, it dates from that period of his life when he was still in the first heat of his love affair with George Sand. As well-made as it is, the work pouring of melody that is sapped of life by an attempt to bring out every element of compositional logic. After all, this music is French. As in the Schubert, Shure was at times heavy-handed, especially...
Early rising is a great way to beat the heat--not as fashionable a way as sporting a Panama shirt, but more effective. The following courses should be cool and refreshing...
...they do not find Harvard, these thousands who come looking, if indeed such a place is to be found enclosed, and taken home as a souvenir at any time of year. And they probably wonder -- "summies" and Harvard-Radcliffe both--as the heat wave enters its eighth day, draining whatever energy was left for that afternoon jaunt to the Cape, if the Cambridge summer-time mystique was all that it promised to be in the chill of early May. Don't ask them then. Ask about it on some November afternoon, of better yet in the middle of January...