Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Descriptions of Isaiah Berlin range from "the most brilliant man in the Western World" to "the wittiest" to "the best conversationalist." You have an uncomprehending respect for people who so describe him for you feel they belong to the inner circle, the practiced. The outsider suspects the significance of the torrent of Oxford language which pours forth from this round and rumpled gentleman but seldom succeeds in keeping up with his pace. Berlin himself observes that his audiences "first struggle desperately but then sink under, staring with glazed eyes." One intense lady became so desperate that she finally interrupted...
...solve all this, Menzel directs a cone-roofed observatory in Colorado, and a new station in New Mexico, close to the site of the first atom bomb. The observatories are equipped with spectrohelioscopes-- astronomical X-ray machines that penetrate to the inner layers of the sun--and with coronoscopes, which blot out the sun like an eclipse, so that the other corona can be watched. Menzel went west a few months ago to spend all his time at the solar stations, on the Astronomy Department's biggest project...
...more than an hour, Witkowski clung; to it, while people shouted, swirled and cussed around him. Some wanted to open the box right there: they suspected it had a secret inner panel. Finally Assistant Prosecutor Abraham Sepenuk showed up and agreed to impound it for grand-jury examination...
Author Panova's chief concern is with the inner life of the doctors, nurses and patients aboard. Her narrative jumps about from character to character, pausing to listen to the heart of each only as long as a stethoscope might, but returning again & again until the diagnosis is assured. In this way she builds a couple of excellent character studies and one profound...
...case of Molotov's replacement by Vishinsky as Foreign Minister, it seemed extremely unlikely that Bulganin's "relief from duty" was a demotion. Like Molotov, Bulganin remained a member of the all-powerful Politburo. It was possible that he had been moved up, either to an inner advisory group on the Politburo, or to the Central Committee's Military Department, the Communist Party's hidden organ which controls the Ministry of Armed Forces. One trend was clear: all but one (Minister of Light Industry A. N. Kosygin) of the Politburo's 13 members have been...