Word: limelighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could at last explore?and understand?living things at their most fundamental level: that of their atoms and molecules. Once molecular biology was sardonically defined as "the practice of biochemistry without a license." Now it has become one of science's most active, exciting and productive arenas, taking the limelight (and some of the best talent) from that longtime favorite, nuclear physics...
...clearly finds in poetry an order and tranquillity absent from the world in which he achieved recognition. His meter, diction and rhetoric are traditional enough, as are his subjects: nature, religion, aging, death, love. They reveal a man with an abiding desire to be isolated, unclocked, unshackled by the limelight. At times this shows directly: "Beyond the coffin confines of telephone booths, my arms stretch to read, in vain." At times it appears obliquely: "Poor fish who knew the sea why did you dare...
Indeed, so thick are the 1972 contenders in the Senate that their maneuvering for the limelight could impede the upper chamber's work. Over in the House, Ohio Republican Clarence...
What happened to splash this sudden dazzle of national limelight over the nonentity from Pine Bluff...
...cent. If he can win with this margin or better he will still have a shot at the Presidential sweepstakes in 1972. President Nixon is hoping that the Republican candidate, Si Spaulding, will run well enough (40 per cent or better) to eliminate the Massachusetts Democrat from the national limelight. But Spaulding has a problem: he cannot figure out whether to go to the left to pick up disenchanted liberals or to the right for supporters of arch right winger Col. John McCarthy who lost the primary to Spaulding. Starting out as a strong Administration critic, Spaulding has retreated from...