Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane's bubble brushes another's, it triggers successive alarms in both cockpits. The first comes 42 seconds before the moment of collision as calculated by the CAS's onboard computers. If the planes are still headed toward each other at 30 seconds, a flashing red light warns the pilots to prepare for evasive action. Five seconds later, the computers issue their final command. Depending on the relative positions of their planes, one pilot may be ordered to climb, the other to dive or stay level...
...paint or envision the tender, natural black and white spirits as Michelangelo did on the Sistine Ceiling-the twin inspirations of the prophetess Cumaea. But along with Michelangelo, today's artists might ponder the thought of Plotinus, the sooty, stooped and radiant philosopher who argued that dark and light together shape the world...
...noticed them in six or eight places," Armstrong explained, "always in the same kind of place-at the bottom of a crater." Last week Cornell Astronomer Thomas Gold offered a dramatic explanation. The moon, he says, may have been scorched by a huge flare-up of heat and light within the solar system...
Each of the attempts has been different. In Indiana, an optional literature course presents the Bible in the light of 19th century "higher criticism," but few schools have adopted it. In Pennsylvania, a new course on "Religious Literature of the West" tries a broader perspective and includes not only selections from the Bible but also from the Koran and rabbinical writings. A successful program was created by the University of Nebraska for elementary and secondary schools; it incorporates religious viewpoints on various topics in English courses. Florida, in a promising new effort, combines religion with social studies rather than with...
...Augustine, Benjamin Franklin ("the leading native victim" of American bowdlerism), and, of course, Donne. "An easy test of what kind of college a student goes to," Perrin proposes, "is to quote the single line 'License my roving hands and let them go,' and see if his eyes light...