Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shielded, white-painted Sherman tanks lumbering about the crater. The great sheet of crackly "trinitite" (glassy melted soil) that looked like a scummy green lake has largely disintegrated; only a faint green ghost of it remains among the returning vegetation. Occasionally, fragments glitter in the sun. The crater is still a shallow, rimless saucer pressed down into the earth by the force of the explosion. In it may be seen a few twisted bits of metal and the reinforced concrete foundations of the tall steel tower that the bomb blew away as vapor...
...Bellamy and Larson are still cautious. Radioactive dust, they say, was blown high in the air by the explosion. Carried by the wind, it settled back to earth in a northeasterly area ten miles wide and 100 miles long. In parts of this area, the soil is detectably radioactive as far as six inches down, and the depth of penetration is slowly increasing...
...conditions in this region and in the crater still dangerous to man? Says Dr Bellamy: "No man knows. No firm answer can be given." The radioactivity in the crater itself, he thinks, may last two or three hundred years...
...customers who still did not get the pitch, the program notes explained: "Dali sees the whole romantic philosophy of Wagner as an uninterrupted complex of impotence. An exasperating procession of wheelbarrows, heavy with the earth of reality, struggling up toward the inaccessible heaven of the ecstasy of love, at the summit of which there is only a precipice-love in death and death in love . . ." Only the New Statesman and Nation had the wit to smile at such Daliance and say the sanest thing heard in the hubbub: "How odd that people should have taken Mad Tristan ... so seriously...
Here & there, the U.S. economic skies cleared a bit last week. The stock market climbed again; the U.S. auto industry broke all previous records by rolling out 148,277 cars and trucks, the biggest week in its history. But the recession's storm clouds still scudded threateningly over the horizon...