Word: angels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came an Angel who had a bright...
...miles of the star, it would be hopelessly stalled by its magnetic field. Still unconvinced, Kemp and Swedlund considered other factors-stray molecules in interstellar space, for example -that might have distorted the dwarf's light. But repeated observations produced the same results. Finally, Columbia University Astronomers Roger Angel and John Landstreet, told of the strange readings atop Pine Mountain, quickly verified them with more powerful telescopes and slightly different techniques at Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory...
...patient angel who tamed an irascible king while teaching many of his 82 children? Anna Leonowens, the fabled Welsh widow whose problems with Siam's King Mongkut in the 1860s were written into a bestseller of the 1940s, Anna and the King of Siam, was no such heroine. Never mind the book or the stage and screen versions, says Ian Grimble, a Scottish historian. He startled BBC listeners by describing Anna as a bigot, "one of those awful little English governesses, a sex-starved widow." Grimble says he bases his ungallant appraisal on a study of Anna...
...THEORY of evolving fictions is the basis for Stevens' poetry, and it is most explicitly dealt with in The Necessary Angel, his collection of essays. His basic contention is that "the world is ugly/and the people are sad"; we are "natives of poverty, children of malheur." In order to escape this bleak universe, we create fictions which satisfy our most basic impulses for happiness and sensual contentment. These fictions unite us with our world, make us feel our universe to be a knowable place rather than an apocalyptic misery machine...
...roof routine that is his forte. But even Zero's comic genius cannot carry the lugubrious sermonizing about black-Jewish relationships and the mawkish comedy that goes with it. In a reverse insult, Levine calls Mishkin "nigger," to which Mishkin replies, "This is the way a Jewish angel talks...