Word: solemnizing
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Editor Grosvenor, 57, happily follows the principles set by his father, believes that "controversy" should be left to other publications. Last week Geographic staffers, their faces solemn and awestruck as any tourist's, legged it eagerly through Jamaica, Yucatan, Cambodia, Hawaii, Chile, Australia, Italy, India and the South Seas. What they sensed and saw would be pleasantly and blandly recorded, at the Magazine's leisure, in some future issue. No rush about it: a magazine whose color inks are mixed to stay brilliant 2½ centuries cannot be expected to hurry...
...dancers in court dress, with cherry blossoms in their headgear, unfold with caressing steps from a circle, suggesting the blossoms in the imperial garden opening under the May sun. Even without masks, the dancers' faces are as unwaveringly expressionless as carvings in jade. The body movements are slow, solemn, almost architectural, with the fluctuation of mood sometimes indicated by nothing more than an inclination of the head or the clenching of a fist...
...Grook," the keyword of the novel, always refers to something ominously exciting, not fully understood, worthy of a boy's wonder and solemn respect. Dr. Sax. the hawk-faced, silent, evil-battling spook whom Jack Duluoz invents (and then sees, fearfully, in every dark doorway), gets from place to place by grooking. Dr. Sax plays poker incessantly, has a high, fiendish laugh ("Mwee hee ha ha ha"). And when his stalking of the evil Great World Snake makes it necessary, he pulls a rubber boat out of his slouch hat, pumps it up and paddles across the Merrimack...
Hole in Space. Widely popular in a profession full of jealousies, Van Allen has a cheerful scorn for his new-found importance. Recently, he told a solemn gathering of scientists, he had been asked for a definition of space. "After a vast research program, which depended very heavily upon the use of a number of highspeed computers, I am pleased to offer you the result: 'Space is that in which everything else is.' In other words, 'Space is the hole that...
...study and in a new absorption in Western gadgets. He took many photographs, often wandered on the terraces of the Potala armed with a telescope with which he could examine the busy life of his city without ever being permitted to join in it. Each spring he traveled in solemn procession through ranks of bowing, weeping people to the summer palace; each autumn he solemnly returned to the Potala. The Austrian Harrer tutored him in Western science and technology, found in the Dalai Lama an insatiable urge for learning, a fascination with modern matters such as the construction...