Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SONS OF DARKNESS, SONS OF LIGHT, by John A. Williams. In this novel, set in 1973, a normally reasonable Negro civil rights leader hires a gunman to avenge the death of a black boy shot by a white policeman. The result evokes the tragedy of a sleepwalking society that can be awakened only by violence...
...passion. All his intensity, vigor, commitment, his uncomplacent integrity, vigor, commitment, his uncomplacent integrity were devoted to fairness, clarity, understanding and humaneness. This is what made him so superb a teacher. The white heat of his mind and heart was at the service of nothing else than light...
Both probes worked at incredibly high speeds. Once the Martian image was captured by their video equipment, it was rapidly translated into electronic signals of varying intensity representing 64 shades of light and dark. Those impulses, in turn, were beamed to earth in the binary language of the computer. To make one complete picture, the spacecrafts' equipment had to scan 665,208 points of light and dark, each of which was converted into six bits of computer information. That five-minute job involved more than 4,000,000 bits for each picture. The poky equipment on Mariner 4 needed...
...accompanied by conceptual diagrams, which he draws on huge newsprint sheets with multicolored felt-tip pens. But dissatisfaction with the meandering course of the formal sessions was palpable. Elspeth Rostow, the highly political wife of former White House Aide Walt Rostow, sat in the background writing savage light verse. Eventually Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League, was provoked into a short, sharp speech. "This has been a real smorgasbord of great ideas," he said, "but we must focus on the problem of the will to act. We do have the resources, but you are living in tomorrow...
...sixth day of the symposium, the participants began drafting a report of their doings, which became the declaration to be read Friday evening. Delos is truly a holy place. It is the psychological center of the Aegean, the union point of Greek clarity and Greek mysticism. In the evening light, the sky takes on blues and oranges and greens, the sea becomes deeper, the moon blazes in the sky. But neither the place nor the rhetOTIC now seemed equal to the distant crises that these people had tried to discuss all week. The wind was rising as Margaret Mead stumped...