Word: unseen
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Johnston said all the agencies involved with housing the families did "a great job." He told of one landlord who took several families "sight unseen" because of the need for housing...
Does this mean the end of the American pact with newcomers to its shores? Almost surely not. Despite difficulties, recent immigrants have brought to the U.S. a diversity, a vitality, a freshness unseen since the great immigration waves of the 19th century. Though different and perhaps more problematic than those who have come before, the latest immigrants are helping form a new society, a variation and intensification of the great American experiment. Too complicated and diffuse to be described as a melting pot, or even a goulash or a mosaic, that society today is really a collection of intertwining subcultures...
This bit of surrealism is, however, only one of the fey charms of the work, which opened off-Broadway last week. Playwright Donald Margulies, a 1992 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Sight Unseen, is, as usual, absolutely fearless in going for the offbeat. A long-dead aunt, for example, returns to life by climbing in a 10th-story window. The title refers to the wackiest moment, an imagined new scene for Death of a Salesman, which the precocious younger son envisions adapting as a perky Broadway musical. Arthur Miller, after all, came from the neighborhood, and the boy's parents seem...
...hunt for dark matter is not just an academic exercise. It is a quest to know the fate of the universe. The unseen material makes up at least 90% of the mass in the cosmos, generates most of the gravity and thus controls the universe's evolution. If there's enough dark matter producing a sufficient amount of gravitational force, the universe will eventually stop expanding and then collapse in an apocalyptic Big Crunch. If there's not, the expansion will go on forever...
...Belfast, which pinpoints the cemetery where hunger striker Bobby Sands is buried, British observation posts, and the "peace line," a concrete barricade separating the city's Catholic and Protestant districts. Tourists who follow the route can watch young boys from both sides of the wall catapult rocks onto their unseen neighbors...