Word: primordiale
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When the Dark Ages began, the cosmos was a formless sea of particles; by the time it ended, just a couple hundred million years later, the universe was alight with young stars gathered into nascent galaxies. It was during the Dark Ages that the chemical elements we know so well...
Not only do young novelists exist, but we can even say a few things about what their books have in common. For example, they're getting shorter. Ten years ago novels were expanding rapidly, like little overheated primordial galaxies. Chunky, world-devouring tomes like Wallace's Infinite Jest and Franzen...
Bob Marley and the Wailers “One Love: Bob Marley and the Wailers at Studio One, 1964-1966” (Heartbeat) 2 Stars Though it’s been nearly 25 years since his death, Bob Marley remains the most recognizable icon of reggae music and Rastafarian...
It's this certainty that lends urgency to the efforts by Zoback and her colleagues to remap the San Andreas and its subsidiary faults, to amass new clues to its murky prehistory and to re-create in cyberspace the primordial violence of the 1906 quake. In addition to being the...
It’s been a while, Krokodiles. The Krokodiloes, Harvard’s oldest a capella group, lured 220 ex-Kroks to their 60th reunion concert last Friday. The gala featured concerts, banquets, celebrations, and even a tearful marriage proposal. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in...