Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truth, but still inadequate. The view of man as a social creature, advanced by Sullivan and Karen Horney, adds a second dimension-but still not enough. For a full understanding, and hence for successful psychotherapy, they hold that man must be seen in his entirety, in the light of his self-consciousness, his imagination, his creativity, and his unique ability to see himself as a finite creature, poised on the brink of nothingness-as Pascal put it, "here rather than there, now rather than then...
...made them fly away from one another. This is what they are doing still. The most distant ones that can be seen with the 200-in. Palomar Mountain telescope are moving away from the earth at 37,000 miles per second or about one-fifth the speed of light...
...only way to determine how the universe is developing is to study how it has developed in the past. Astronomers look backward in time by looking outward in space. The best optical telescope can see galaxies that are 2 billion light-years away, i.e., with light that left them (at a travel speed of 186,300 miles per second) when they were 2 billion years younger than they are now. But 2 billion years is a comparatively short backward leap into the cosmic past, does not reveal enough evidence of change to prove or disprove either theory...
...fantastic figures and caricatures." When he was 16, Feininger went to Europe to study music. Soon he switched to art and landed a long-distance job with the Chicago Sunday Tribune, drawing two comics of his own invention The Kinder-Kids and Wee Willie Winkle's World. These light-footed and sad-eyed fantasies led to his first serious paintings such as Pink Sky (see color...
...known as Grimy Tams-insists that "nightclub singing is the hardest thing in the world to do." She makes it sound like the easiest, as she concocts a wistful chant out of Oscar Levant's Blame It on my Youth, throbs through Limehouse Blues, races with a fine, light lilt through The Springtime Cometh, a take-off an old English madrigal ("Gaily skippeth, nylon rippeth, zipper zippeth, whoop-de-do, which is to say, the springtime cometh"). For Cole Porter's urbane lyrics, her precise, finishing-school inflection provides just the right sophistication...