Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who do not. O'Brian has excoriated Danny Kaye for 15 years on the grounds that Kaye's comic talent never escaped infancy. He is equally steadfast in his disapproval of Ed Sullivan ("Old Smiley"), David Susskind ("Little David"), CBS News Commentator Mike Wallace ("a vacuum") and scores of other performers who fall short of the O'Brian standards. "I'm not a Hessian soldier," says O'Brian. "I can't write what I don't believe. The muscle in my column is opinion, and I can't write anyone else...
...nine years ago on Broadway, Borge this time does a kind of one-and-a-half-man show with Leonid Hambro as co-pianist and straight man. Borge sort of excludes him in, and satirizes the egomania of stars by scraping the mike head along the floor like a vacuum cleaner during Hambro's only solo number. Later, in a howling display of virtuosity, the duo intertwine legs, arms and hands and march their fingers up the keyboard in a centipede's version of Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. With the election over, Borge has also decided...
Suddenly, it occurred to him that molecules and atoms are nature's original broadcasters. They transmit on their own characteristic frequencies whenever they change from one energy state to another. Why not put nature, instead of vacuum tubes, to work? Last week, 13 years later, Townes's answer to that question won him half the Nobel Prize in physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences called his achievement a triumph of "quantum electronics," which was another way of saying that Townes's work had pointed the way toward masers (an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission...
...pietistic psychoanalyst arcs his body in gestures of helpfulness, as if he were physically proffering mental health. As the anthropologist, Sheila Burrell looks like a shrunken head that has been restored to lifesize, and Robin Bailey's Martin, while a trifle actorish, is very much the passive modern vacuum-hero into whose life trouble rushes...
George Cabot Lodge '50 told an audience of Harvard Dames last night that "what you see in these countries [Latin America] is the dissolution of the feudal system..." and that "aggressive forces on the left are rushing in to fill the vacuum...