Word: rested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DREAM, HIS REST, by John Berryman. Using a fictional white middle-aged American named Henry as his mouthpiece, Berryman comments on a whole range of human experience, particularly life during the past eleven years, and completes the poem cycle begun in 77 Dream Songs...
...French Resistance there cut all telephone lines to Paris in an attempt to hamstring the Wehrmacht's response. The Germans, however, failed to realize that the lines had been put out of action, so the story goes, for Paris has always been aloof from the rest of France. For cen turies, the capital has been the nation's center of culture, business and politics...
Feinberg was unable to get around this mathematical roadblock until he was struck by an ingenious idea. If mass becomes imaginary at high velocities, why not see what happens when an imaginary number is substituted for mass at rest? When he made the substitution, he was able to derive a real number for the energy of a particle traveling above the speed of light. Translating this concept into physical terms, Feinberg conjured up a strange particle that seemed to exist only on the other side of the speed-of-light barrier; it could move at velocities greater than...
...opened his eyes, looked at John, and held him by the arm; then he looked at Elizabeth, to whom he had come to feel close, and said, "Thank you, Elizabeth." He held her hand, and then looked around and said, "and all the rest of you too." He saw that everybody was smiling, and then felt within his won body that same high, other-world, free and beautiful feeling that he had seen on other people's faces. He returned to his place in the circle and lay on his back to practice breathing. There was silence in the room...
Refusing to give up, however, the Crimson dominated the rest of the meet. In the heavier weights, Harvard lost only one match and tied another...