Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectrometer is aboard Orbiting Solar Observatory IV, launched Oct. 18. The instrument's power supply was turned on Oct. 24; it has been taking about 150 pictures a day since...
...instrument builds up a picture by scanning the sun, back and forth and bottom to top, recording the intensity of ultraviolet radiation of a particular wavelength...
...Goldberg '34, Higgins Professor of Astronomy, who heads the group which constructed the spectrometer, called the instrument "the first true observatory" last night. "Rather than just an experiment which tells the same thing over and over, the program can be changed if we wish," he said...
...title is a typical O'Hara stunt, The Instrument refers explicitly to the way in which Yancey ("Yank") Lucas becomes the literary tool of an actress. It also refers to Yank's penis, which has no conscience whatsoever and contributes to the deaths of two of his bed partners. The book tells the story of Yank's sudden rise to the top of the American theater and his possession by the gifts that put him there...
...Instrument succeeds for all the old reasons. O'Hara eavesdrops on speech like an electronic listening device. His authentication-buttons on clothes, furnishings in rooms-creates reality. Above all, O'Hara's small imagined world of specific conflict spreads like an opening hand to touch a much larger one. This novel about a writer's success and the husbanding of his emotions becomes a dialogue between John O'Hara and his reader...