Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famed French physicist, the Due de Broglie), has resolved the paradox of light with a theory that allows it to be considered both as waves and as particles. But the prince is a scientific dreamer who can illuminate both matter-energy and the puzzle of creation in the same vision: "If we give free rein to our fantasy, we may suppose that at the first beginning of time, light alone existed in the world, and by its gradual thickening brought into being the material universe that we are able to see with its aid. And perhaps some day, when time...
What makes this novel so extraordinary is that it is both an allegory and a chronicle of despair. The style fluctuates rapidly between poetic vision and brutal realism. The characters are naturally symbolic, but at the same time human--although remarkable in their sensitivity. Ernie Levy is the six million Jews put to death by the "final solution," yet, at certain moments, he is a most ordinary human being. That M. Schwarz-Bart has been able for the most part to combine these two levels of his story successfully is a tribute both to his skill and his diligence...
...since in its more talkative pre-U-2 days the Air Force had pretty well let the Samos cat out of the bag. In 1958, Air Force General Homer Boushey explained the principles of Samos to a House committee. When an earthbound telescope looks up from the ground, its vision is dimmed and distorted by nearby irregularities in the atmosphere. But were that same telescope to look down from space, the same irregularities would have much less effect. On a clear day, a 40-in. telescope 500 miles up would theoretically see and photograph objects on the earth only...
...vision of an England where the pound is steady, the sun is usually shining and the club goes on forever is perhaps essentially the daydream of a perennial expatriate; Wodehouse has spent two-thirds of his adult life in the U.S. But the author builds his country houses in the air with such zest, charm and comic invention that they are always worth the price of the tour...
Gehenna is a short, impressive interior monologue that dallies with madness, and The Dark City is a skillfully done story of a happy father who, without abandoning his happiness, has a moment's clear vision of evil. Two other stories - The Last Visit, concerned with adultery, and Mr. Arcularis, which chillingly deals with the no man's land between life and death - are bravely and successfully ended in the O. Henry manner. These are the author's best, and they are a pleasure to read; few literary telescopes show the dark side of the moon as vividly...