Word: scatterers
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...literary firing line will probably pepper his latest book, which presents targets in gratifying profusion. Cannibals and Christians is mostly warmed-over Mailer: a scatter of pseudo poems (he calls them "short hairs"), essays, dialectic, sermonizing, book reviews, literary criticism and political reportage. The principal new material is some italicized mortar troweled in to support the notion that this pile of used bricks rose and took form from a blue print, which of course...
...trouble is, its virtues are not bought cheaply. Its extreme volatility and the - 423° F. temperature necessary to keep it in liquid form make it difficult to deal with both on the ground and in space. NASA spacemen had theorized that once weightless in orbit, liquid hydrogen would scatter around its fuel tank in an uneven mixture of liquid and gas. And unless liquid hydrogen can be kept at the bottom of the tank, it cannot reach the valves through which it is pumped to the combustion chamber...
Harvard's suddenly scatter-armed pitching staff will have to locate the strike zone again in a hurry if the Crimson is to down undefeated Boston College today. Game time is 2 p.m. at Splinter Stadium...
...NATO's $550 million communications network, an electronic web of everything from microwave to tropospheric scatter and leased land lines...
...flooded with light," says Gyorgy Kepes, M.I.T.'s professor of visual design. "We switch light on and off, send it where we will, and when we will, negate it. We project, reflect, fix, focus, chop, diffuse and scatter it. Why, then, are we not struck by the realization that the palette of a stupendous new civic art has been put in our hands...