Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time Bill Smith arrived in Kenya in late 1962, Kenyatta's country was on the verge of independence. "I'd do it again and again, if I had to-again and again," said the leader, speaking of the revolutionary activities that cost him years in exile and prison. "It was the only way." Like his predecessors, Smith was impressed particularly by Kenyatta's presence. "He really was the father of his nation, and with his seniority and strength he was indomitable...
...late 1930s, on the eve of World War II, Oppenheimer published two landmark papers in the journal Physical Review. The first, in collaboration with a graduate student named George Volkoff, argued that neutron stars could in fact exist. They would have a diameter of about 10 km (6 miles) and weigh about 10 million tons per cu. cm. In the second paper, innocuously titled "On Continued Gravitational Contraction," Oppenheimer and another student, Hartland Snyder, contended that if the dying star was massive enough, nothing in Einstein's theory stood in the way of the ultimate compression?the formation...
...late 1960s, as a research fellow at Cambridge, he and a colleague, Roger Penrose, showed more convincingly than ever before that if Einsteinian general relativity is correct, gravitational collapse will result in "singularities" that are totally hidden inside black holes. But Hawking did not stop there. Following up the work of John Wheeler's student, Jacob Bekenstein, he pointed out that there are important mathematical analogies between the bizarre otherworld of black holes and the familiar physical rules of thermodynamics, notably the idea of entropy-which says, in effect, that the universe is running down like an unwinding clock...
...life, glimpsed through the lens of Heidegger's concept of "Being." Our daily lives, Barrett insists, can disclose our deepest experiences of the world. Boarding the train, reading the newspaper contemplating the objects in his study he dwells on the mystery that the world exists at all. Late at night, he gazes at the stars, infused with a sensation that men are "strangers in the universe . . . homeless within the world." In these pages, the mystery of transience and death declares itself with a poignant insistence...
Approach #6. The Cool-o-Matic Approach. This is it. Sashay your way through Freshman Week without pain or loss of all-important style points. If you want to enjoy your week, do it this way. Arrive a little bit late, at the risk of being stuck with the living room or the misfit in your rooming group. Yeah, that's right, the 400-pound sumo wrestler from East Schneck who listens to opera real loud, and picks his nose...