Word: thunderbolting
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...course, proud of such credentials. But 'M.I.T.'s faculty members are the first to protest that headline-making achievement is only a by-blow of M.I.T.'s real purpose: that of producing scientists and technologists able to cope with and lead an epoch of thunderbolt change. Can they be mass-trained? At M.I.T., with its 6,300 students (including 154 coeds rather chillily referred to as "the women students"), the answer is yes. But how? M.I.T.'s answer lies in its willingness to change itself...
Because the newspaper is supposedly published by the Executive Committee, the suspension was technically justified in its adsurd extremity. The endorsement may have been ill-advised, but such a peccadillo hardly merits a full-scale thunderbolt. Student Government elections are remarkable neither for their excitement nor their significance...
...energy. And Zeus is dangerous, a fact well known to every one of the electricians who swarm over it. The least of Zeus's bolts could burn them to a crisp. When Dr. Tom Putnam, physicist in charge, gets ready to ask Zeus to hurl a trial thunderbolt, he takes elaborate precautions. First he locks the monster in its room. Then he starts the "permissive chain" on the control board...
...biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived via the egghead circuit." But virtue was rewarded, for J.B. proved to be "a sort of theatrical thunderbolt that strikes about once in a decade," according to Newsweek, "... a burst of magnificent, enthralling theatre that kept a fascinated audience of first-nighters applauding long after the stage hands wanted to call it a night." "New York critics were spellbound by the play," it reported, and they did seem...
Religion is lived by all the people. Hundreds of lamaseries house thousands upon thousands of monks and nuns whose days are spent in meditation and prayer. There are nearly as many Living Buddhas as there are lamaseries, including one female incarnation whose name translates as "Thunderbolt Sow." Prayer is everywhere, on the lips of men and on flags and bits of paper stamped with woodblock imprints of the sacred words: "Om mani padme hum [Hail, the jewel in the lotus)." The phrase flutters from tall poles outside villages, from trees and cairns; it is stuffed inside the chortens' hollow...