Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hitherto, Golding has preferred to present his characters almost as abstractions. Lord of the Flies was a laboratory demonstration of original sin taking place on a rather unreal island; The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin dealt with a mid-Atlantic castaway who seems to choose life with pain over easeful death, but is in fact already dead and in purgatory; The Spire set a drama of spirit and flesh in a remote time. The Pyramid represents no retreat from these tours de force, but Golding's command of fiction is now such that he can dress his tragedians...
Initially, most of the money would go into housing, one of the most acute needs. Later, funds would also be channeled into new job-producing industries and businesses. Though new safeguards from the Federal Housing Administration would minimize the risks that have hitherto frightened most businessmen away, profits, in the current tight-money market, would unquestionably be lower than they would be from comparable investments elsewhere. Still, as one executive frankly noted, the $1 billion is a "good, long-range" investment...
...substance that was supposed to open the doors to a luminous new world of the mind, has instead opened the minds of medical researchers to a dark world of hitherto unsuspected dangers in connection with many drugs. It now appears that not only LSD, but also other, more familiar drugs may damage the human reproductive mechanism by causing breaks or other abnormalities in the chromosomes. A woman with such chromosomal dam age may have a spontaneous abortion or a stillbirth, or her child may be deformed, or develop a fatal anemia...
Until now, scholars have had to work with a Chinese dictionary written about 100 A.D. that provides little or no help in deciphering texts predating two centuries B.C. Jao estimates that the Ch'u Silk Manuscript will reveal the meanings of 300 hitherto-undefined characters. Working with infra-red photographs, which help make the characters legible, Jao has begun translating the manuscript into modern Chinese. Dr. Noel Barnard, a senior fellow in Far Eastern history at Australian National University, is converting it into "pidgin English...
...Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, 39, recently invited three Swiss scholars, Geologist Augusto Gansser, his photographer daughter and Vienna-born Tibetologist Blanche-Christine Olschak, to observe and record the whole spectrum of Bhutan's culture. They have emerged with a fascinating photographic record including temples and monastic art treasures seen hitherto only by privileged lamas (see color opposite...