Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charmed reader may want to know more than Anthologist Lewis reveals about his contributors, who are identified only by name, age and the countries where he found them. If the spark can burn so widely and so brightly, and at so lovely an age, what kindles it? Who nourishes it? And why does it sometimes go out? Lewis is content to let the poets be judged by their work, and perhaps he is right...
...challenge he could not resist. It was the first Ital ian production of Jean Anouilh's Medea, with volcanic Film Actress Anna Magnani (Open City, The Rose Tattoo) in the title role. Menotti realized all along, though, that working with Magnani is "like working with fire. It might burn down the whole house if you let it go, but if you put water on it, the fire might go out. You must keep the fire burning without destroying the theater...
Accelerated by Ions. Unlike chemical rockets, which burn most of their fuel in a few minutes, ion engines can operate continuously for months and even years on an incredibly small amount of fuel. One experimental ion engine recently completed 341 days of steady operation. Thus, after a powerful chemical rocket has boosted a spacecraft beyond the earth's gravitational pull, the ion engine can take over, gradually and steadily accelerating the craft to its planned velocity over the months and years of a long space trip...
...agree that the sun formed from a slowly rotating nebula-a cloud of dust and gas that gradually contracted because of gravitation, and began to rotate faster. When pressures at the dense center of the shrinking cloud produced enough heat, thermonuclear reactions took place and the sun began to burn, still surrounded by the outlying portions of the cloud-apparently the current state of R Man's evolution. As more of the particles fell toward the burning center, or collected into orbiting globs of matter that eventually formed the planets, the light of the central nuclear fire began...
...little know my countrymen." Joyce won a box of cigars on that exchange: knowing his countrymen, he had bet that Shaw would decline. Yet Shaw in another letter refutes the canard that he was disgusted by Ulysses. Writing to London's Picture Post, Shaw explained: "I did not burn it; and I was not disgusted. If Mr. Joyce should ever desire a testimonial as the author of a literary masterpiece from me, it shall be given with all possible emphasis and with sincere enthusiasm...