Word: singularities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, the Peace Corps still appeals to the innate altruism of American youth, and virtually every country to which volunteers have been assigned has welcomed them, asked for more and often given singular send-offs to homebound Corpsmen who have completed their tours of duty. In a remote settlement in Southern India recently, a young Corpsman announced that he would soon be returning to the U.S. to get married. Distraught villagers tried to induce him to stay by offering him anything he might want-including his pick of the local maidens...
...pages. When the therapy ends, the young man seems just as silly and at least as sick as he was when it started. Fowles tries terribly hard to make the reader care about all this. He displays to advantage both an extensive culture in the occult and a singular power of imagery. Yet too often he carelessly permits that power to corrupt him: he stands too long admiring his spectacular descriptions. Fowles's faults, however, are mostly the faults of inexperience. At 39, he is a novelistic tyro, a London schoolmaster who published The Collector at the relatively advanced...
...Capote had only presented a bare history, colored with reportorial irony, In Cold Blood would be merely suspenseful and provoking non-fiction. But it is a novel, for Capote, with singular grace, hovers between profound irony and melodrama--the irony of collision and the drama of a not inconsiderable sense of fate. The central impact of the amassed documentation derives from the compelling personality of the central figure, Perry Smith, and his belief in fate. By the time we have come to know Perry and his fated family, for whom the "solution" to life has frequently been violent suicide...
...goal for overambitious scientists. From the scorched launching pads of Cape Kennedy to the lonely tracking ships in the Pacific, Gemini had pumped new life into U.S. space work. And a public grown almost blasé about news of men in orbit waited for the astronauts' return with singular pride...
Perfected after six years of research, the sophisticated AMU (for Astronaut Maneuvering Unit) that is built into the space walker's backpack will give Bassett singular agility. It is powered by twelve small hydrogen peroxide thrusters that can propel it in any direction; it has its own fuel tanks, running lights, gyroscopes, and an alarm system that warns the wearer by flashing lights and sounding beeps in his earphones if fuel or oxygen is running low. With its own hour-long oxygen supply, storage batteries and radio and telemetry systems, the AMU does not even need the "umbilical cord...