Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life," says one of Vladimir Nabokov's characters, "makes a constant attempt to prove it is real." Russian-born Author Nabokov prefers to believe it is not. For him, real life ended with a bang in the 1917 Revolution. Ever since then he has quietly taken refuge in an elegant, ironic domain of private jokes and personal fantasies. Lolita made him famous because the private joke was also a public one that millions found appalling or appealing. His other works (The Eye, Pale Fire, Pnin, etc.) have been more complex fantasies. One of them is this prophetic, satirical play...
...39th Street with a gala wake. The farewell performance at Manhattan's old Metropolitan Opera House (1883-1966) drew 3,900 guests and three generations of conductors to reminisce through hits and bits from 25 operas. The hello to the new house had actually started with a bang a few days earlier. KER-BLAM! went the sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun fired for a sound test. "O say! can you see . . ." roared the 3,200 New York City schoolchildren in the Met's new, $45,700,000 house in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. General Manager Rudolf Bing...
...universe have a true beginning? Did it start with a great primeval bang, and has it always been expanding? Or has it existed forever, essentially the same, its galaxies drifting apart while others are born to fill the space between, so that the words "eternity" and "infinity" maintain their literal meaning in an unending past and future? Somewhere out in the vast reaches of space and time, there are sources of energy as yet unimagined by man-unbridled physical reactions that dwarf any conceivable nuclear explosion...
...Schmidt strives to learn about his quasars, scientists are busy investigating other clues from the distant reaches of the universe and looking for new ones. In New Jersey, researchers at the Bell Telephone Laboratories have recorded the dying whisper of what might be radio waves emitted by a cosmological bang 10 billion years ago. In Washington last week, Navy scientists reported that a high-flying Aerobee rocket had detected strong X-ray sources associated with distant galaxies. And NASA officials are preparing for the launching later this month of an orbiting observatory equipped with telescopes for the continuous detection...
...life is grim for the Viet Cong. A diary captured in a complex north of Saigon last week carried a typical lamentation: "Oh, what hard days! One has to stay in a tunnel, eat cold rice with salt, drink unboiled water!" That was the last entry. Next day, Tran Bang, the 29-year-old diarist, was killed in an American assault on the once-inviolable underground world of the Viet Cong...