Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finding subsequent elements (through No. 101). Although he finds little time nowadays for following football very closely (he is faculty representative to the Pacific Coast Conference), Seaborg does play golf (low 90s), swims in his backyard pool. One current project: search for the next synthetic element (No. 103). "The inner rewards," says he, "are very great. Science is the new frontier, and we all like adventure...
Descartes believed the pineal gland was the seat of the soul, and doctors later thought it was man's third or inner eye. The pineal (from the Latin word for pine cone, which it resembles in shape) is a small gland attached to the midbrain...
...with the idea that Christianity could live in a Communist-dominated world. "If the Russian steamroller flattens everything up to the Atlantic Ocean because the West has nothing in the way of defense," Thielicke has written, "then we will be denied the capability of shaping a world having proper inner and social values . . . Once dead, one cannot regenerate oneself, even inwardly...
...class's "lack of warmth," wrote Wolfe in Of Time and the River, "the absence of inner radial heat which, not being fundamental in the structure of their lives, had never been wanted, filled [me] with a horror and impotent fury...
...fundamental precept seems unassailable. As he says at length and somewhat abstrusely, the novel, especially the modern novel, characteristically deals with time and the complexities of inner motivation; the film, on the other hand, basically unequipped to render these effectively, finds its forte in rendering motion and action. Both its external quality and the unfortunate compression required by a maximum viewing time limit the film. A novel, for example, can take forty hours to be read, and can indulge in the luxury of leisurely expression, whereas the film is at the mercy of the speeding celluloid that cannot turn back...