Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Possibilities of World Peace" was the theme of the Harvard World Federalists meeting last night in the Adams House Common Room. The hour long meeting consisted of movies, speakers, and discussion of the theme in light of the material presented...
Last week, in the first big retrospective show of Bloom's work ever held, there was plenty to look at besides painted corpses. Visitors at Boris Mirski's Boston gallery could see encrusted oils of blazing chandeliers, Christmas trees ribboned with light, melancholy rabbis and bold abstractions that have contributed to Bostonian Bloom's slowly growing reputation. Nonetheless, the five most discussed paintings in the show seemed to come straight from charnel house and morgue...
...more distant objects were found in constantly increasing numbers. An exposure of one hour brought in the "background," the shine of the night sky, and thus represented the maximum power of the telescope. To judge by the number of faint nebulae on it, this photograph reached one billion light-years (6 billion trillion miles) into space-twice as far as man had ever looked before. Said Hubble: "The tests confirm our previous conclusion that the Hale telescope is an unqualified success...
...work even better after a delicate repolishing of its outer ten inches. The great telescope will not start on its real program of charting the outer universe until it is as perfect as scientific skill can make it. The world's astronomers, impatient for news from a billion light-years away, do not mind waiting a little longer...
...everybody, but it is a fair example of good Capote: "By now it was almost nightfall, a firefly hour, blue as milkglass; and birds like arrows swooped together and swept into the folds of trees. Before storms, leaves and flowers appear to burn with a private light, color, and Miss Bobbit, got up in a little white skirt like a powderpuff and with strips of gold-glittering tinsel ribboning her hair, seemed, set against the darkening all around, to contain this illuminated quality . . . She stood that way for a good long while, and Aunt El said it was right smart...