Word: andromedae
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...Shepley is a practicing sports-man-big-game hunting, fishing, sailing. He has captained his yawl, Andromeda, on many a blue-water race, including the Newport-to-Bermuda run last spring...
...thumbtacks." » Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "Bulbous nose, dolorous eyes, tight lips . . . like a punchinello whose feelings have been wounded." » Adlai Stevenson: "The round head of a plump, warmhearted, paternal grandpa ... a man who laughs easily while his eyes remain staring like a couple of Andromeda nebulae." » Neville Chamberlain: "The Secre tary Bird, which you may watch at the zoo walking back and forth on stiff legs with an expression of honest purpose on its face...
...awful, moving around with my little mat." She worked at odd, wearying places in the summer, such as a Schweppes factory ("Ugh"), where she grew to hate the taste of bitter lemon. Then BBC-TV picked her up for a science fiction serial called A Is for Andromeda. Movies have weaned her away from television. Her first two were unnoteworthy, but now, with Billy Liar, which last week seemed most likely to win the top award at the current Venice Film Festival, she is established as a film star...
Like westerns, science fiction obeys inviolate rules. The next step, of course, is for Andromeda and the machine to start taking over the world. Directed by the machine, Andromeda produces miracles: new wonder enzymes and an anti-missile missile system that confounds the Communists. British politicians begin dreaming of regaining big-power status, and villainous cartoon-capitalists from a giant international cartel get into the act. By now, the irascible Dr. Fleming is screaming that the machine is engaged in the "slow subjugation of the planet." When no one listens, Fleming attacks the machine itself with...
Drilled Minds. A for Andromeda is a novelized version of a seven-part TV serial which ran last year on BBC, where it won an impressive 80% of Britain's viewing audience. It was co-authored by TV Scriptwriter John Elliot and Mathematician Fred Hoyle. 46. Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge and a leading proponent of the theory of the expanding universe. Hoyle finds that writing science fiction (Ossian's Ride, The Black Cloud) is a "very useful relaxation" from work on his 15-year opus on astrophysics. Readers may find both interesting and irritating some Hoylean...