Word: radiantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electronic gadgetry, ranging from electric-eye devices to TV picture tubes and solar panels for spacecraft.) In this paper Einstein borrowed from a theory by German Physicist Max Planck, who had solved a vexing problem about the radiation of heat and light from hot objects by proposing that this radiant energy is carried off or absorbed in tiny packets, or quanta. Planck himself was dissatisfied with the theory, believing it contrary to nature, but Einstein enthusiastically seized it. He introduced the very revolutionary idea that light at times has the characteristics of particles (later named photons). These particles were knocking...
...Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to "innocent and honest children" who were "very little, and your bones are very brittle." His concept of childhood as a special, inviolable realm was reflected in the canvases of John Singer Sargent, Lydia Emmet and George Wesley Bellows. The girls they painted were radiant creatures, living in their own protected worlds...
What everyone is seeing is a replica of the changing sky over Bethlehem 2,000 years ago from Christmas to Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), when the Magi finally reached Bethlehem. In the east, the radiant star the Magi followed hovers over the stable of an inn, part of a panoramic view of the biblical country side that circles the auditorium...
...that time, however, Boston was oblivious to anything occurring outside the vicinity of Landsdowne St. Summer in Boston is, after all, not much more than a humid, sweaty fantasy, two months of radiant heat and soaking t-shirts designed simply to occupy the space between semesters. And to watch baseball, which is far more of an opiate than religion, at least as far as Bostonians are concerned...
...thin volume of his poetry on the theme of the fatherland. When Wojtyla visited Harvard University in 1976 to deliver an abstruse philosophical lecture, Summer School Director Thomas Crooks came away considering him "one of the most impressive men I've met in my life. He had an absolutely radiant personality...