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...talks about people who perspire audibly; and he knows others who make opium out of the poppies sold by veterans. He calls himself a "latent heterosexual" and says he has an intense desire to return to the womb-"anybody's." He owns an impatient tape recorder that constantly talks back at him, saying: "I know, I know, I know." His father, he remembers, once worked in a factory but was replaced by a small gadget. His mother, he says, bought...
...layer are sensitive to blue light; those in the middle are sensitive to green; those in the bottom layer are sensitive to red. When a many-colored picture is focused on the film, the blue, green and red components of the light that has entered the camera form three latent (undeveloped) images on the three layers of silver halide...
...same molecular machinery produces the other colors. When green light from foliage forms a latent image on the green-sensitive layer, the magenta dye, which is nearest that layer, is captured. The other dyes, yellow and cyan, are free to go to the surface and become the green leaves in the finished picture. Similarly, yellow and magenta make red. Intermediate colors form at places where the images overlap weakly, allowing fractional amounts of dye to escape. White light in the picture (such as a cottony summer cloud) makes exposed spots on all three layers, capturing all the dyes and leaving...
While Wallison detected a "spontaneous desire" among freshmen to join his club, he admitted that one of his most successful techniques on The Line was to offer an opportunity to "campaign against Ted Kennedy." He also felt that the "partisan administration of Jack Kennedy has made many latent Republicans want to declare themselves publicly...
...date of birth, family and educational backgrounds, field of concentration, course program, weight, vaccination record, and attitude toward raw carrots, of a really special prospect. The sophisticated one then develops problems with which the 'Cliffie is particularly adapted to cope, and places himself in a position where the latent mother in them all is particularly liable to arise...