Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most scenes with the Agha are shot in the neutral gray of shadowy interiors. Only once--on horseback--does he come fully into the sunlight, where he briefly loses stature. In contrast, the world of Manolios and his "apostles" appears as the quietly violent whiteness of the Greek countryside, a brightness broken by the cold black of one night scene--during which Manolios goes through the agony of mockery, rejection, and self-doubt...
...radio communication can be maintained across 25 million miles, the nearest approach of Venus. Transmission over this distance requires a lot of power. Chemical batteries are too feeble. Nuclear-powered batteries are promising but have not been developed sufficiently. The best bet is solar cells, which capture energy from sunlight...
...paddlelike surfaces carried on branching supports and arranged in such a way that one of them will always face fairly accurately toward the sun. Both surfaces of the paddles will be covered with a mosaic of cells made of thin sheets of a photoelectric material (probably silicon) that turns sunlight into electricity. The paddles will be folded when the satellite is in the nose of its launching rocket and will snap into position as soon as it is spaceborne. The array of solar batteries is expected to develop as much as 400 watts, about enough to run a small toaster...
Total Darkness. Soon the satellite will go over the horizon from the sun and plunge into total darkness. There is no twilight in space-only sunlight and darkness. All about him will be a black emptiness and silence...
...crimson gates of Her Majesty's Prison in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, a balding little Englishman stood one day last week, blinking in the sudden sunlight. Guy Clutton-Brock, 53, had just been released after 27 days in jail. His wife Molly was 250 miles away in a Bulawayo mental hospital; she had suffered a breakdown following her husband's arrest for associating with African nationalists. Clutton-Brock is what he calls "a practical Christian," and his courageous version of practical Christianity, many African churchmen were saying last week, may be just what is needed to get the church...