Word: outerness
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India came to grief by counting on the Soviet Union's ability to hold Red China in check in Asia. Yet last week, a far more feeble Asian state, Outer Mongolia, was clinging firmly to the same policy...
Victorian gentlemen, rustled and bustled at by ladies in swathes of outer material and nether armor, paid handsome prices for paintings of unclad women in voluptuous tangles, with titles like A Nude Woman or Youth on the Prow and Pleasure at the Helm, and a barroom without a nude was naked indeed. But today the naked lady-or bits and pieces of her-is filling the advertising columns and editorial pages of the fashion magazines, general magazines and even family newspapers...
...instrument. Using the 32 dish-shaped antennas of a Stanford University radio telescope, Dr. Cudaback spent three months measuring the moon's own electronic transmissions. He traced the variations in the moon's electrical characteristics, tracked its composition through yards of abstruse equations and decided that its outer surface is just barely denser than the empty space around...
Beyond the Fringe. There is a kind of gentleman's agreement, valid for many Broadway shows, that brains as well as cigarettes must be extinguished in the outer lobby, but once in a while this agreement is violated. Players and audience offer one another mutual respect, and there is an explosion of literate joy. Beyond the Fringe is precisely that...
...Nash has introduced the meeting, pleading for "calm reasonableness." Todd Gitlin, Tocsin's chairman, talks of "Harvard's air of complete isolation." He is interrupted by thunderous knocks on the firmly closed outer doors. The audience giggles happily, but it has calmed down: it is that part of the service where the curate pauses to read a few comfortable parish announcements. Meanwhile the Macbeth-like knocks continue...