Word: loch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legend dates back to the 6th century A.D., when St. Columba began converting Scotland to Christianity. While visiting the Loch Ness area one day, Columba saw a giant animal rear out of the water and lunge at one of his monks. Only when the good saint made the sign of the cross did the beast back off. Since that frightening debut, Nessie, as the beast has become known, has appeared countless times to villagers and visitors alike; there are even murky photos of the famed Loch Ness monster. Despite such "evidence," scientists remain highly skeptical. Nessie's "proper habitat...
...skeptics may have to reexamine their doubts. The latest observations of the Loch Ness monster come not from bibulous tourists or imaginative locals but from a group with apparently impeccable credentials: the Boston-based Academy of Applied Science. An organization of inventors, engineers and other science buffs, the academy was founded by a well-to-do patent attorney and M.I.T. physics graduate named Robert H. Rines. For the past three summers, in collaboration with Britain's own Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, academy investigators have kept patient nightly watch on the waters of the loch, using the latest underwater cameras...
...time, whatever was there disappeared, only to reappear a few minutes later and then vanish again. Rines had his men play a strong spotlight on the waters, a common trick used to attract fish. To Rines' delight, the light apparently had an effect on whatever was in the loch; the sonar resumed its odd tracings. The evidence, which was examined by experts in sonar at M.I.T., Raytheon Co. and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, tended to back Rines' own theory: that the sonar had picked up not one but two Nessies, that they were at least...
...second story, whose "What if?" begins at the bottom of Loch Ness, is hardly more than a vehicle for an affectionate Highlands scene-and-character sketchbook. But the Hoyle stories are the playthings of genius. Because they carry around no portentous sociological baggage, the Hoyles are all the more effective at the classical task of science fiction, which is to satirize grotesque social reality in the mirror of scientific possibility. More than that, the tales have that rarest of qualities in fiction, science or otherwise: gaiety...
...Afro-American Dance Theatre. Loch Mainstage. 8. May 14. Free tickets available at box office this week...