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...finished to help solve the problems of flight at speeds up to 4,000 m.p.h., temperatures from -65° F. to 660° F. and altitudes up to 125,000 ft. McDonnell's race for space is not just for business reasons. Says Mr. Mac, with something akin to missionary hope: "The space exploration rivalry can be a creative substitute...
...boring platitudes as for his cruelty. By contrast, when a band of teen-age White soldiers storms the Red positions, the doctor admires their gallantry. He feels that he must shoot in self-defense, but he cannot bring himself to aim at the boys who "were probably akin to him in spirit, in education, in moral values." And so, in a perfect illustration of Zhivago's essential refusal to do harm, he aims his fire at a dead tree...
...doubt the crew member feels something akin to the skier's togetherness, knowing that he is huddled in the warm confines of the boathouse, that so long as the Charles flows there will always be a Harvard crew, and that when the shells again take to the river next spring, people will stand on the banks in the sunlight and cheer...
...friend of Hayes-Bickford well knows you must add or subtract one or two decibels from the continuous spiel of college theatre people, if you seek something akin to the ring of truth (that is). Whether you add or subtract largely depends on which way the warm wind blows; when a number of The Good Woman's company quit in desperation last week, the breeze ran swift and hot. My abacus lost track utterly, trying to keep count amid such blustery meteorology and all. You sometimes wonder why such a modest little show as this one should involve these higher...
...satirist then declared that Americans have become members of "domesticated wolfpacks." Vidal continued, "We have lost the picture of solitary man standing up against other men and the facts of his creation." Not only unable to stand alone, Americans are also affected by "a tolerance so profound it is akin to terror," which stultifies the artist...