Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, by Flannery O'Connor. These last brilliant stories by the late Miss O'Connor give no quarter to pity and seldom, even, to compassion. Instead, they illustrate the author's favorite themes: the bonds between parent and child, between the tyrannical weak and the consuming strong, and between Southerners-white and Negro-leashed in hatred to each other...
...there are the unifying events whose experience the Class holds in common, the sense of Class is indeed a weak and frail thing. For the universe of Harvard is most intensely a club world, a drama world, an or-one of small worlds: a House world organization(the CRIMSON, WHRB) world, a library world, a political (the Young Republicans, the Young
...Weak Wash. Professor Dicke's group is particularly interested in the period when the universe had just begun to expand after its last Big Bang. It was still very hot, containing vast amounts of light and other radiation, but as it expanded the radiation weakened and increased in wave length because of the speed of expansion. This ancient radia tion came to permeate the universe and washed weakly against the galaxies-one of which is the Milky Way to which the solar system belongs. The weakened radiation, says Professor Dicke, may well be what has been detected...
Social Parasite. Uruguayan scientists working for the department stumbled on the secret while they were searching for a fungus or a bacteria that might be fatal to fire ants. They discovered that in Uruguay, where the ants are native they are no serious problem. Often they are so weak that they build flimsy nests which wash away in the rain. This suggested not an ant killer but a social parasite...
...added, "Some students who are moving into our second and third years do seem to be very weak, and it might be desirable to push the bottom standard a little higher, and to encourage these doubtful cases to look elsewhere...