Author Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in his best-selling 1961 book Stranger in a Strange Land.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

* WikiQuote on Stranger in a Strange Land includes many uses of grok

Includes some very intelligent Martians similar to those mentioned in Stranger in a Strange Land, who help human colonists free themselves of tyrannical Earth authorities.

* 1987 – Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land and Ayn Rand, Anthem

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

From about 1961 ( Stranger in a Strange Land ) to 1973 ( Time Enough for Love ), Heinlein explored some of his most important themes, such as individualism, libertarianism, and free expression of physical and emotional love.

Three novels from this period, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Time Enough for Love, won the Libertarian Futurist Society's Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, designed to honor classic libertarian fiction.

Heinlein did not publish Stranger in a Strange Land until some time after it was written, and the themes of free love and radical individualism are prominently featured in his long-unpublished first novel, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs.

Although Heinlein had previously written a few short stories in the fantasy genre, during this period he wrote his first fantasy novel, Glory Road, and in Stranger in a Strange Land and I Will Fear No Evil, he began to mix hard science with fantasy, mysticism, and satire of organized religion.

It is a matter of opinion whether this demonstrates a lack of attention to craftsmanship or a conscious effort to expand the boundaries of science fiction, either into a kind of magical realism, continuing the process of literary exploration that he had begun with Stranger in a Strange Land, or into a kind of literary metaphor of quantum science ( The Number of the Beast dealing with the Observer problem, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls being a direct reference to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment ).

The tendency toward authorial self-reference begun in Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love becomes even more evident in novels such as The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, whose first-person protagonist is a disabled military veteran who becomes a writer, and finds love with a female character who, like many of Heinlein's strong female characters, appears to be based closely on his wife Ginny.

Stranger in a Strange Land was embraced by the hippie counterculture, and libertarians have found inspiration in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

By his middle period, sexual freedom and the elimination of sexual jealousy were a major theme of Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), in which the progressively minded but sexually conservative reporter, Ben Caxton, acts as a dramatic foil for the less parochial characters, Jubal Harshaw and Valentine Michael Smith ( Mike ).

Many of his stories, such as Gulf, If This Goes On —, and Stranger in a Strange Land, depend strongly on the premise, related to the well-known Sapir – Whorf hypothesis, that by using a correctly designed language, one can change or improve oneself mentally, or even realize untapped potential ( as in the case of Joe Green in Gulf ).

Heinlein made quick work of altruism as a false virtue in Stranger in a Strange Land and mentioned John Galt — the hero in Rand's " Atlas Shrugged "-- as a heroic archetype in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Wodehouse's Joy in the Morning, William Golding's Rites of Passage, Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Surrealist author Gellu Naum's Zenobia and in Robert E. Howard's Conan series, Edward Gorey's " Fletcher and Zenobia ", and Zenobia / Zeena in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.

An uncut version of Stranger in a Strange Land was also released around the same time.

Nudism would not appear again in Heinlein's work until 1957's The Door Into Summer ; free love next made an appearance in 1961, in Stranger in a Strange Land.

* Robert A. Heinlein repeatedly used Martians ( usually, human beings born and bred on Mars ) as characters in his novels and short stories, including Red Planet ( 1949 ), Double Star ( 1956 ), and Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ).

As in Stranger in a Strange Land, a band of social revolutionaries forms a secretive and hierarchical organization.

Also appearing are Jubal Harshaw, a major character in Stranger in a Strange Land ; Dr. Galahad, of Time Enough for Love ; and Manuel Garcia O ' Kelly Davis, the first-person voice of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

It represents the first appearance of Heinlein's idealized Martian elder race ( see also Stranger in a Strange Land ).

The life cycle of Martians ( as theorized by Doctor MacRae ) is the same in Stranger in a Strange Land.

Further, the water friends theme is recapitulated in Stranger in a Strange Land as " water brothers.

* The Savage Land is referenced in The Super Hero Squad Show episode " Stranger From a Savage Land.

* Jubal Harshaw, a character in the novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.

Jubal Harshaw is a fictional character featured in Stranger in a Strange Land, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein.

An innkeeper, Silvanito, tells the Stranger about the bitter feud between two families vying to gain control of the town: on the one side, the Rojo brothers, consisting of Don Miguel ( the eldest and nominally in charge ), Esteban ( the most headstrong ), and Ramón ( the most capable and intelligent ); on the other, the family of the town sheriff, John Baxter

The Stranger tells Marisol, her husband, and their son to leave town, at the same time giving them some money to tide them over.

The third version, called No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger: Being an Ancient Tale Found in a Jug and Freely Translated from the Jug, returns to Medieval Austria and tells of No. 44's mysterious appearance at the door of a print shop and his use of heavenly powers to expose the futility of mankind's existence.

He finds himself in front of his own grave, where the Phantom Stranger tells him he has seven days to undo his curse, as " There is an unholy night coming, as black as the dead's blood.

The Stranger declines the job until Shaw tells him he can have anything he wants.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

These include: Oleta Adams " Circle of One " album ( reaching No. 1 in the UK charts 1991 ); Marc Almond " Tenement Symphony " album which included the epic tracks " Jacky " and " The Days of Pearly Spencer "; The Associates " Wild and Lonely " album ; Rick Astley " Free " album ; B * Witched " Awake and Breathe " album ; Chris Botti " Slowing Down the World " album ; Boyzone " A Different Beat " album ; Cher " It's a Man's World " album ; Petula Clark " La Vie en Rose " track ; Lloyd Cole and the Commotions " Rattlesnakes " album ; Andrea Corr " Ten Feet High " album ; Cathy Dennis " Move to This " and " Into the Skyline " albums ; Electronic " Getting Away with It " single ( reaching No. 12 in the UK charts 1990 ); Frankie Goes to Hollywood " Welcome to the Pleasuredome " album which included their 2nd and 3rd No. 1s " Two Tribes " and " The Power of Love "; Elton John " The Big Picture " album ; Martyn Joseph " Being There " album ; Kingmaker " Sleepwalking " album ; Annie Lennox " Medusa " album ( No. 1 in the UK charts 1995 ); Let Loose " Best In Me " single ; Virginia MacNaughton " The Music " album ; Paul McCartney " Press to Play " album ; Malcolm McLaren " Duck Rock " album ; The Men They Couldn't Hang " A Map Of Morocco " single ; George Michael " Careless Whisper " single ( reaching No. 1 in 25 countries ); Liza Minnelli " Results " album ( reaching No. 6 in the UK charts 1989 ); The Moody Blues " Greatest Hits " album ; Moist " Gasoline " single ; Jimmy Nail " Crocodile Shoes " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1994 ); The Painted Word " Lovelife " album ; Pet Shop Boys " Very " album ; Pulp " Different Class " and " This Is Hardcore " albums ( both reaching No. 1 ); Rialto " Monday Morning 5: 19 " single ; Frances Ruffelle " Stranger To The Rain " single ; S Club " 7 album " ( No. 1 in the UK charts 2000 ); Scarlet " Naked " album ; Seal first 3 albums " Seal " " Seal II " " Human Being "; Siphiwo " Hope " album ( featuring Nelson Mandela on the title track ); Wendy Stark " Stark " album ; Rod Stewart " A Spanner in the Works " album and " If We Fall in Love Tonight " album and the single " Downtown Train "; Suggs " The Lone Ranger " album ; Travis " More Than Us " EP featuring Anne on the title track ; Tina Turner " Wildest Dreams " album ; Wet Wet Wet " Holding Back the River " album ( reaching No. 2 in the UK charts 1989 ); Wham!

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry ; here our highest good is pleasure.

: Stranger: Why have you conceived so strong a desire?

: Stranger: Yet you would like to see them, pain and all.

It began, " I'm sure you recognise this lovely melody as ' Stranger in Paradise.

Australian rock band Hunters & Collectors filmed many of their video clips in St. Kilda in the 1980s ; of particular note is " Talking to a Stranger " which used the old St Kilda railway station, " Say Goodbye ", parts of which were filmed upstairs at the George Hotel and " Do you see what I see?

Marisol asks the Stranger, " Why do you do this for us?

On the least notion of it, I will indignantly spurn the by-past transaction, and from that moment commence entire Stranger to you!

At the end, it shows that an evil man who pilots a ship called the " Stranger " is the real person who is in control of the Medallion, and was responsible for the war, as well as other conflicts in the past including World War II, and you fight him three times as a mini-boss and as the last boss.

Mordecai comments to the departing Stranger that he never did know his name, to which the Stranger cryptically replies, " Yes, you do.

The narrator speaks at one point, with " Stranger in Paradise " playing in the background, and says, " You may think of this as ' Stranger in Paradise ,' but did you know it was from the Polovtsian Dance Number 2 by Borodin?

When you are open to ideas and thoughts the music will come to you .” In contrast to his peers ( such as Otto Luening, John Cage, and La Monte Young ) who sounded, according to The Stranger, more like " math equations ( artists out to prove a point ) than actual music ," El-Dabh's experimental electronic music were " more shapely and rhythmic constructions " that incorporated traditional stringed and percussion sounds, inspired by folk music traditions ( including the Egyptian and Native American traditions ).

Leonard Maltin, in his TV and Video Movie Guide, says that " you haven't lived until you've seen the Fire Maidens dance to ' Stranger in Paradise ' by Borodin.

Recently appeared in the 11th edition of Vive Latino, where she presented part of his new album Hombre Invisible to interpret Stranger, Lontano and Colmena, including its successes as part of their repertoire as Ojos Claros Labios Rosas, Te amo I Llove you and Peligro.

In an interview with ReelzChannel, writer Brian Nelson stated, " I'll just tantalizingly say it is possible you might see more of the Stranger in the future.

A key was found then a box of cypress wood with the inscription: " Stranger, who open always be you, to learn from the miracles.