The Book Review, in a typically glowing response, called it "one of the most original and funniest of books for young readers," adding, "Beginning readers and the parents who have been helping them through the dreary activities of Dick and Jane... are due for a happy surprise".
All Photo credits: Sébastien Roy.
Legend has yet to explicitly connect his personal goal of learning to swim with larger societal implications, but as an artist who's rarely shy about using his platform to fight for social justice, perhaps the glowing response to his announcement on Monday will encourage him to be even more transparent about his progress as he improves in the pool.
One glowing response commented that the workshop was "one of the most useful presentations in my life".
Fluorescent proteins have been lighting up biology labs for more than a decade, glowing in response to everything from gene expression inside cells to the presence of anthrax and other biowarfare agents.
The glowing audience response to a rough cut of the film at two test screenings in Dallas on March 26 , 1975 and one in Long Beach, on March 28, along with the success of Benchley's novel and the early stages of Universal's marketing campaign, generated great interest among theater owners, facilitating the studio's plan to debut Jaws at hundreds of cinemas simultaneously.
Meanwhile, both young and mature cells expressed a green fluorescent protein that glowed in response to changes in the concentration of calcium ions, a proxy for neuronal firing.
A number of daft plastic headless chickens on rooftops act as weather-vanes, glowing in computerised response to the level of global fear tracked by software on the internet.
There's a risk that – despite the glowing headlines ("The response was ecstatic and it deserved to be," said the New York Times) – Whitley's initiative (and the wonderful work done by Bold Tendencies, which runs this car park as an arts centre) is not for locals but for bussed-in cultural gadflies like me and my party of friends and family.
When Hermann-Josef Pelgrim, the mayor here, invited several journalists from southern Europe to write about job opportunities in Schwäbisch (pronounced SHVAY-bish) Hall this year, the response to a glowing article by the Portuguese reporter was overwhelming.
