Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...structures like lighthouses enhanced their natural surroundings by emphatically signaling progress. But the prevailing mood changed to awe as Americans pushed westward, and it reached a climax in Albert Bierstadt's enormous canvas of the Rocky Mountains. Almost Wagnerian in scope-soaring peaks, resounding cataracts, blazing shafts of sunlight-it shows nature completely overwhelming insignificant man. On a lesser note, such painters as Jasper Francis Cropsey saw nature as a metaphor for God and respectfully depicted people as tiny objects in glorious settings...
...unity, the defense of China's frontiers against outside invaders. Unlike any other in the world, the wall has a vitality of architectural rhythm that gives it a sense of endless movement. It seems to be a slow-moving dragon, the bricks its scales, undulating in the sunlight. Even Richard Nixon's banal description of its might fails to mute the wonder of the morning. "A people that can build a wall like this certainly have a great past to be proud of," he says, "and a people who have this kind of a past must also have...
...gully to show interested visitors an example. He lowers himself into a masonry-lined oblong that was once a temple room. Triumphantly he points to the plaster of one wall. There is an image of a girl in a bell-shaped skirt, and she is dancing, dim in the sunlight. For 3,500 years, up until just a few weeks ago, that girl danced in the darkness of the earth...
Forgotten English. On their return to the U.S., Fecteau and Mary Ann were thin and wan, but doctors pronounced them reasonably fit. While Mary Ann was chipper and talkative, Fecteau was withdrawn. He had a hard time getting used to sunlight. "I've got to learn to talk to people again," he told one of his State Department escorts. After speaking to him on the phone, his daughter Sidnice had the same thought: "He hasn't spoken English for so lone he has forgotten...
Optical Mismatch. Gabor's technique was elegantly simple. He filtered out all but the green light emitted by a powerful mercury arc lamp, producing a beam of light waves of a single frequency (ordinary sunlight is composed of many different frequencies). Then he aimed the beam at an object placed in front of a photographic plate. The unobstructed part of the light beam hit the plate directly. Light waves reflected from the object's irregular surface also reached the photographic plate. But because they had bounced off different parts of the object, they arrived at the plate...