Word: veils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just takes somebody out of the community, possibly to the tune of prerecorded hymns at the funeral parlor." John Courtney Murray suggests that man has lost touch with the transcendent dimension in the transition from a rural agricultural society to an urbanized, technological world. The effect has been to veil man from what he calls natural symbols?the seasonal pattern of growth?that in the past reminded men of their own finiteness. The question is, says Murray, "whether or not a contemporary industrial civilization can construct symbols that can help us understand...
...every hill battalioned trees March skyward on unmoving knees, And like a spider on a veil Climbs the moon. A nightingale, Lost in the trees against the sky, Loudly repeats its jewelled...
Astronomers now believe that they have penetrated the veil of clouds enveloping that mysterious lady Venus. In the Astrophysical Journal, a pair of planet watchers using the equipment at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory announced that they have made what is probably the first direct observations of the planet's surface, and found it, as expected, dry and extremely hot. They measured temperatures up to a maximum of 675°F. at the equator and a minimum of 300° at the poles -far too hot for any known form of life...
...they know they have studied Venus and not its veil? Dr. Barry Clark of the National Radio Observatory at Green Bank, W.Va., and Dr. Arkady Kuzmin of Moscow's Lebedev Institute of Physics explained that the thermal radiations they observed from Venus seemed to come from a solid surface. Moreover, Caltech's two big-dish antennas found the planet's actual diameter to be less than the 7,655-mile span that is observed optically. As a result, the astronomers assume that they have measured the planet itself and that the dense cloud covering is at least...
...multi-leveled plot. Every character has a carefully plotted relationship to every other, a relationship often twisted by family ties and past animosities. If a production succeeds, every line crackles with the meaning behind it; the languid pace becomes for the audience, as it is for the characters, a veil that covers a nest of suspense...