Word: orb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what Victoria would have done if the roles had been reversed. The simplicity of her self-concern is disarming. She is like a spoiled child of power, too unsophisticated not to tell it as it really was. Even her coronation is reduced to precise physical proportions: "I took the orb in my left hand and the scepter in my right-and thus loaded, I proceeded out of the abbey, which resounded with cheers...
...whole 20th century experience of abstract art, from cubism through abstract expressionism, which has taught many that art need represent neither a thing nor an emotion; luminal art, though radiantly handsome, generally does neither. Pop played a role in making commercial techniques acceptable. Peter Myer, 32, constructed Transit Orb out of cello phane designs and polarized plastic filters, which are more commonly used for sunglasses. Manhattan's Earl Reiback, 31, a onetime nuclear engineer, even has fun in taking an object-one of six different nudes-and then modulating the image into total abstraction. To accomplish this, he built...
...Airless Orb. Undaunted, a University of Miami scientist with credentials in the field of cosmogony-has resurrected one of the old theories and given it a new twist that he feels will enable it to pass the mathematical and dynamical tests its predecessors failed. Physicist S. (for Siegfried) Fred Singer suggests that the moon first evolved as a minor planet, independent of the earth and following its own orbit around the sun. About four billion years ago, he believes, its path carried it on a near-collision course with the earth, which at that time was an atmosphereless orb revolving...
...pale orb rose over the Quad, broomsticks mysteriously appeared in the bicycle racks outside of Barnard. An unidentified body was found hanging from the Moors tower. Eight feet of anthropoid shredded newspaper stole through Cabot's main floor...
Little Flowers. The scent of youthful bitterness suffuses the sarcastic prose bouquet with which Willingham opens the novel: "In this peaceful land . . . the summer sun is a fiery furnace; it boils the blood, cooks the brain, and spreads a fever in the bones. But that same fearful orb, in collaboration with the sweet rain generated by its power, makes the little flowers grow...