Word: lucent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite clever barbs and lucent epigrams ("Respect is the only successful aphrodisiac"), Any God Will Do is not as acidly funny as it keeps promising to be. In the past, Condon cultists have been treated to comic narrative leaps performed with the agility of a Macedonian goat, and to sly surrealistic glimpses into the lives of Oedipal wrecks and decent drudges who turn up naked at the Last Judgment. But in this book much of the elan is gone; it sometimes appears as if Condon is padding to keep from plotting. Besides, he seems to hold his nose...
...cloverleaf indicated by color and with highway signs to match, U.S. motorists would lave less trouble finding their way through superhighway mazes. Hercules Powder Co., pioneer producer of polypropylene, has developed a new glass-and-plastic material for a third-stage shell for the Minuteman missile. It is trans lucent, as light as magnesium and stronger than steel...