Word: outerness
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...Jovian radio outbursts are caused by Jovian auroras. If Jupiter has a magnetic field, they argue, it must have magnetic poles, just as the earth does. When speeding particles in the Jovian Van Allen belt come near a magnetic pole, some of them plunge too low and hit the outer fringe of Jupiter's atmosphere. One result of the collisions might well be radio waves strong enough to be detected far off on the earth. Bright Target. Another result is probably an extremely bright aurora. No human has seen this spectacle because Jupiter always shows the earth an almost...
...general scientific ignorance. People have learned to accept science as a source of endless improvement, material comfort, and abundance, yet most the exact workings of science are mysterious. "Ironically, science itself seems to have fallen heir to much of what remains of the frightened awe formerly accorded to the outer darkness...
...phony ring to it [Feb. 23.] If the President has expanded the role of the Vice President, it must be classified information. About the only new addition to Lyndon's position is heading the National Aeronautics and Space Council, and, no doubt, the Texan must find outer space rather lonely and cold...
...shown again last week when Cuba's delegate sought to brand the U.S. with harboring "new plans of aggression" against the Castro regime. The men from Havana could find no African or Asian "neutralist" willing to introduce their Assembly resolution, and when the measure (finally introduced by Outer Mongolia) came to a vote, many of the Africans abstained, helping the U.S. defeat Cuba's move...
...concerns an enslaving, egocentric widower, Ninian, and his devoted daughter, Lavinia. Ninian decides to remarry. Lavinia becomes emotionally unhinged, a letter is mysteriously withheld, and a family will turns up with a deathbed injunction scrawled on it. By such classic Compton-Burnett devices, not only are the characters' outer fortunes made or marred, but their inner natures are thrust into the light. The mannered speech gives its human disclosures a fine comic intonation; what Compton-Burnett provides for life's stumbles and tumbles is a fiendishly polished floor...