Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this helped ensure a profound impact for Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963. In it, she argued that women lose their identities by submerging themselves in a world of house, spouse and children. The book came just at the height of the civil rights movement in the South; the pressures to give blacks a full place in society inevitably produced a new preoccupation with other second-class citizens. The Viet Nam War also led to far-reaching questions about traditional American assumptions and institutions, to a new awareness of injustice...
...argument can be made, and I make it often, that Ravel reached the height of his creative powers in Le Tombeau de Couperin. He began the work in 1914, but finished after the War, turning it into a memorial for his soldier friends who were killed in action. Ravel's piece stands out among World War I compositions for the unity of its construction, its clarity, and its style. One need only contrast it to, say, Delius's Requiem to realize how compelling an expression of revulsion against war the piece is and how superior to others of the genre...
...guide emphasized, the bridge is also a symbol of triumph over the "revisionists." At the height of the Cultural Revolution, work stopped for two months while rival factions in Nanking argued bitterly over design details. Among other things, the revisionists -they turned out to be the Minister of Railways and several local party officials, all of whom were finally ousted -wanted the roadway to be only eight meters wide (26 feet); they lost-the road is thus a much more generous 19.5 meters (63 feet) wide. The revisionists also saw no need to have three huge red flags...
This latter scene, conveying a frightening sense of height, is the only technically effective addition. Hollywood hadn't mastered the art of mashing bodies, so the close-ups show the victims carefully placed between gaps in Kong's lower teeth. Kong's head looks like the mechanical mock-up it was: the result is foolish and distracting. This new set of close-ups weakens the film's attempted verisimilitude and should quietly be returned to the censor's vault...
...their central illustration, Sagan and Drake-helped by Sagan's wife, Linda, an artist-chose figures of two representative earthlings (see A in diagram). Their height is indicated by the scale drawing of Pioneer in the background (B). The message contains a more subtle dimensional clue (C) that an extraterrestrial physicist should quickly recognize: an atom of hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, which is shown undergoing a change of energy state (indicated by the different orientations of the orbiting electrons on the circles). During this process, the atom gives off a pulse of radiation with...