Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is lost - details of Chaucer's personal history, shadings of his personality - Gardner relies on scholarly guesses and novelistic license. After all, he teaches medieval literature at Bennington and, as the author of Grendel, The Sunlight Dialogues and October Light, is one of the most enterprising American novelists...
...last building designed by Architect Louis Kahn. It is a triumph. At the heart of the stainless-steel and glass structure lie two inner courtyards, paneled in striking blond oak and covered by plexidome skylights. The galleries are built around the courts, with internal windows that open onto them. Sunlight streams in everywhere. The details are starkly modern: exposed heating ducts, a huge, free-standing circular stairway. Yet the effect, thanks to Kahn's classical symmetry, is of a stately, updated manor house. As President Brewster observes, "It's rather remarkable that such a building could give...
...sunlight in her eyes...
...will be a long and difficult one. Many of the issues preoccupying Washington during the week are converging -in some cases unexpectedly-on the White House. Meanwhile, outside, the sunny morning will slide into a dark and wet afternoon, though occasional bold rays of sunlight will slice through the tumbling clouds and bathe the budding treetops above the south lawn in startling shades of gold...
...their normal outer coat. By manipulating still another of the microbe's genes, Curtiss and Pereira deprived the bug of its ability to make colanic acid. That change provided an unexpected dividend; it also made the already sickly microbe extremely sensitive to ultraviolet light. Any exposure to sunlight would kill...