Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the moon rotates on its axis only about one-thirtieth as fast as the earth, stars move slowly across the lunar skies, making it easier to track and photograph them. Because lunar gravity is only one-sixth the earth's, structural distortions caused by the sheer weight of large telescope mirrors and their supports will be dramatically lessened. Some scientists have estimated that telescope mirrors as large as 2,000 in. in diameter (ten times the earth's largest) could be used effectively on the moon...
...Charles Magaziner is a former Long Island pizza-eating champion who has prodded Brown University into some of the liveliest academic reforms in the U.S. He did it by sheer intelligence, without manhandling a single dean. Last month Magaziner delivered the senior class valedictory, collected his magna cum laude degree in an interdisciplinary program called Human Studies, twirled his Phi Beta Kappa key and looked ahead to two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. Brown itself looked ahead to sweeping curriculum changes that might never have occurred without Magaziner...
...Lulu, no opera worth discussing has been composed." On the Paris Opera: "Full of dust and dung." On the French musical community, which he left in 1959 to settle in Germany: "There is more stupidity there than anywhere else." On the verbiage of conductors who talk too much: "Sheer hocus-pocus...
...sense of being under observation is so strong it sometimes seems the hallways are tunnels hung with rolling eyeballs. There are no free distances for the eyes and no space for the body. The confinement imposed by rules and restrictions is paralleled on the physical level by the sheer lack of room and privacy...
Strong's writing is so artless it could make any other writer nervous. I feel like a lead-footed groundling watching a tightrope-walker without a net. But more important than the sheer virtuosity is the fact that the writing captures a true feeling and recalls a real time...