Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field. Microwave fields reverse themselves rapidly; to keep up with them, the polarized molecules must oscillate constantly. This oscillation produces a rise in temperature. In a microwave oven, for example, the electric field completely permeates a potato, instantly heating the moisture in its center as well as in its skin: it is evenly baked within five minutes. Microwaves have already been put to work precooking chicken before freezing, drying freshly painted surfaces and dehydrating lumber, paper and potato chips...
...tradition as he elucidates his proofs that the earth revolves around the sun. This Galileo is a glutton of food, wine and ideas. As one character says, he has "thinking bouts." As Brecht sees it, this very appetite is Galileo's fatal flaw. His desire to save his skin ranks above any devotion to a pure priesthood of science, any will to suffer death for the truths he had discovered...
...microphone--and come to stand as changing symbols for the largely unchanging multitude. They are those who ride with the spirit of the times, those who are under the circumstances the most vocal and aggressive and, also, those who are seized upon by the public as "typical." The coon-skin coat and the flapper were as rare on the campuses in the 1920's as the beard and black stockings in the 1960's, and yet each of these visions came to stand as symbols for a whole generation...
...young whose complexions and dispositions benefit from the pill. Many a woman entering menopause, confident that soon she can forget about contraception, is advised to stay on the pills because they postpone many of the stigmata of age-dryness and wrinkling of the skin, sagging bosom, edginess and depression, and a reduction of vaginal secretions that may make intercourse too painful...
...deprived of vital particulars. It is as if, viewing events from Olympus, Wilder sees the marvel of life but not the movement. The people of Coaltown, U.S.A. -Everytown, Universe-love, falter, hate, do good and deal in injustice, and carry on through eternity, still hanging on by the skin of their teeth, improving themselves a little as they go. In an old-fashioned mixture of Christian teaching and evolution, Dr. Gillies, Coaltown's resident philosopher, explains that each of the seven days of God's creation represents millions of years and that the present represents only the beginning...