Word: marsden
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Despite the Continent's apparently superior vantage point, Marsden says, "I wouldn't make plans to take a special trip to Europe to see the meteors." While the 1992 Perseid showers, visible over Europe, occurred precisely at the predicted time, he notes, the 1991 Perseids, seen in Japan, were inexplicably almost three hours late. Should the meteors be that tardy this year, they would find Europe in daylight but could make a spectacle of themselves in the night skies across the entire U.S. and Canada...
Aspects of the work of older American artists recur in Porter's work: Marsden Hartley's love of bony mass, Edward Hopper's treatment of light. But there were very great differences. Porter was a more nuanced and daring colorist than Hartley; his world is more lyric than Hopper's, and on the whole untouched by melancholy. It is also more generalized in treatment. In a large painting like Island Farmhouse, 1969, the white weatherboard asserts itself in a blast of light like a Doric temple; the lines of shadow are a burning visionary yellow; everything, from the angular...
Rainwater's research in Europe and the U.S. will continue at or above its current pace, said Professor of Sociology Peter V. Marsden, the department's current chair. Since 1983, Rainwater has been research director of the Luxembourg Income Study...
...been one of the leading American scholars on issues of policy," said Marsden. "We regret losing a senior colleague...
...atmosphere. But humanity may not be so lucky for long: there is a chance that the next time Swift-Tuttle comes around, probably in the year 2126, it will fall to earth. The odds are small -- 10,000 to 1 against -- according to the International Astronomical Union's Brian Marsden. But the downside is so great that Marsden has urged his colleagues to keep careful track of Swift-Tuttle so its orbit can be more precisely calculated. If it really is on a collision course, the only answer may be to blast it from afar with nuclear warheads...