Adolescent Storm and Stress: An Evaluation of the Mead-freeman Controversy (Research Monographs in Adolescence Series)

By the manner in which the early light fluctuated from gray to gold to gray again, laura could tell, without looking at the sky, that the rain had stopped and that the clouds were breaking up. The lysene girl had hair the color of honey, and eyes like the summer sky.

All around him, folk were frozen into a listening silence. All access was choked by enormous crowds except where an effective blockade, in the immediate surroundings of the landing and launching pads for spaceships, had been set up.

It was the fleeting, the ephemeral, that created a transcendent experience.