Word: outerness
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...lickens have been rubbing their heads all across the U.S. It started last month at Bellingham (pop. 34,000), in northwest Washington, not far from where the first flying saucer was sighted. Auto owners noticed pockmarks, some as small as pin heads, others as big as peanuts, on the outer surfaces of their windshields. At first the victims blamed vandals, then ghosts and then some mysterious molten droplets falling out of the sky. In about the time that it takes a feature story to move over a press association's wire, the ghostly, ghastly pox spread. It appeared...
...Tacoma, a more solemn expert said that the damage was being caused by unseen little people from outer space, who found that their sonic weapons were not powerful enough to destroy animal tissue, and were venting their disappointment on windshields...
...buildings that will make up the new St. John's include a fresh conception of cloisters. Instead of running along the side of a building, as cloisters have done since St. Benedict, they will be independent covered walks, mostly of local fieldstone on the outer side, roofed with reinforced concrete and glass-walled or open on the inner side to provide views of the gardens and landscaping. Said one monk: "This is a great improvement over traditional Benedictine architecture, where buildings are always so planned that if a fire starts it can spread immediately in all directions...
Poet Louis (The Outer Land) Grudin is to James Joyce what dozens of novelists have been to Hemingway and Proust-an eager copycat who asserts his right to look at his king, even if it leaves him crosseyed. Joyce showed how multiple ideas and emotions get tangled together in the human mind, and how the mention of one thing suggests other quite different things which happen to be "associated," through the sound and look of words...
...version of Harold Foster's comic strip, Producer Robert L. Jacks and Director Henry Hathaway have not only matched the museum-copied look of the well-known Sunday viking and his cohorts; they have caught the panel's inner mood of stilted boyhood reverie as well. The outer semblance was attained partly by chance-the CinemaScope screen coincides roughly with the dimensions Foster favors for his cautiously grand panoramas...