Word: cinders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is insufferably painful for this Hedda is that she is totally aware of her predicament. She has aimed at the stars and settled for a cinder. Tesman, with his dusty burrowing in book after book, is not a spouse but a sedative. It is to Actor Peter Hansen's credit that he humanizes a library mole so that the audience can accord him the pity that Hedda withholds...
...turned out, departure from the moon was triumphantly smooth. Of course, even after lift-off and redocking, there were still the dangers of the homeward trip. Control failures could cause the spacecraft to re-enter the earth's atmosphere at too steep an angle and burn to a cinder, or at so flat an angle that it would bounce off the outer fringes of the atmosphere far into space. There its oxygen would be exhausted before it could loop back to the earth...
...program was so hushed up that the only way to find out that a shot had taken place was to have a Cocoa Beach bartender telephone the news. But in the 1960s the time had come for Verne's idea. With it came a population of 250,000, cinder-block subdivisions, all the effluvia of a boom town and, last week, a million guests in a carnival atmosphere...
...starting an experimental theatre somewhere in the Boston area. Between the three of them, Samshak, the actor, Jerry Reagan, the actor-director, and Ron Beaton, the light technician, they had the necessary qualifications. So with what little money Samshak had in the bank, they rented a storefront in the cinder-block beauty of BRA's Castle Square and transformed it into a theatre. On October 5, 1967, the Atma Theatre (then known as the Atma Coffee-house) opened with Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. The admission price was $1.50, and the coffee was free...
...answering the questions of newsmen, they were articulate, gently humorous and impressively well-informed about lunar geology. Anders avoided taking sides in the controversy over whether the moon's features are of primarily volcanic or meteoric origin. He reported seeing what seemed to be lava flows and cinder cones, and said that photographs of the back side of the moon revealed "anamolous dark regions that may indicate new lava flows, volcanic activity." But he had seen impact craters, too, and he noted that "there are enough holes on the moon for both theories...