Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those horrible words, "Burn but his books!"--especially odious for those of us who recall Senator McCarthy--the b's burst like bombs (significantly, Caliban's language is liberally peppered with plosive labials). Yet Hyman shows us the pathos of this bastard brute too, and he underlines Caliban's dim gropings for aesthetic values in that great speech beginning. "The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not." Hyman's Caliban lacks only the digital "long nails" he himself speaks...
...years ago radio astronomers at the University of Cambridge reported waves from a dim radio star in the Bootes constellation. Radio astronomy was then too crude to give accurate directions-and when Minkowski tried to photograph the phenomenon with Palomar's telescope, he found nothing. But new radio telescopes at Cambridge and in Owens Valley, Calif, recently drew an accurate bead on the radio star in Bootes. Minkowski pointed the Palomar telescope at the spot indicated. And after exposing a photographic plate for two hours, he got his picture of two big galaxies in collision...
...limited objective, such a journey would have no real justification. But this trip . . . represents an important phase of a program whose paramount objective was, and is, to improve the climate of international understanding . . . We should not permit unpleasant incidents and sporadic turmoil, inspired by misled or hostile agents, to dim for us the concrete and gratifying results...
...dim male figure smiling uneasily in the midst of these splendid figures is a male Mitford of whom nobody has ever heard. He is Tom, a barrister who was killed in Burma...
Except for such dim traces, Dilmun vanished centuries ago. But just after World War II, a scholarly young Englishman, Geoffrey Bibby, visited Bahrein on oil business, and was fascinated by 100,000 burial mounds on the island's north end. Under them were T-shaped stone chambers with the remains of a single person in each. Before he could investigate further, Bibby left Bahrein. Later he married a Danish girl, settled in Denmark, and worked his way up to the post of director of oriental antiquities in Aarhus University's prehistoric museum...