Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bloembergen's maser is used to amplify weak radiations of very short wavelength--for example, microwave radio signals. In use for a year-and-a-half on the Harvard College Observatory's 60-foot radio telescope, the maser has already helped double the known number of radio stars...
Mosaic's fiction this time is pretty weak. "Adoshem," a short story by Leonard Tushnet, could have been very funny; part whimsy, part science fiction, it is the story of a Kabalist Rabbi in Brooklyn who, searching for God's name, plays around with the magic number e=mc squared until he is struck by lightning. It isn't funny, because Tushnet patronizes the old Rabbi he has created and has a sentimental realist's way of describing things in too much detail. Better written is Daniel Eigerman's "Cirrhosis to Benefit by Gala," another short story; this...
...offers are reports of events and images of power: a phallus in The Balcony, a racial throne in The Blacks, and a well-publicized murder in Deathwatch. Thus there are no powerful characters: only those who pretend successfully (the strong) and those who fail in their deceptions (the weak...
...extended its pursuit of excellence to the merchandising game. I realize that this is progress, and that the most effective thing I can do is resign myself to it. But before making my final submission to the techniques of mass marketing, I do wish to register this one weak protest. Until recently, I had hoped that my relationship to Harvard was something more than that of consumer of doughnuts...
...field Amherst has not equalled its promise on paper. They shut out weak Tufts, 2 to 0, but lost in the second half to M.I.T., 4 to 3. "In the first quarter they look like pros," Coach Bruce Munro reported, "but then they seem to fall apart...