Word: comets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doctor's Dilemma (Comet; M-G-M). The Fabian intellect and the Wagnerian soul were the lion and the unicorn of Bernard Shaw's personal mythology and creative life. In his later writings these opposites lie down together peacefully in the green pastures of Creative Evolution, but in The Doctor's Dilemma (1906) the two tendencies almost tear each other, and the play, apart. With all his romantic soul, Shaw longed to write a tragedy of the one and the many, of the creator-criminal murdered by the power of positive thinking and collective morality. With...
...book Essays in Eponymy, and stoutly defends the oft-criticized practice of naming matters medical for their discoverers. These men are as much entitled to be so commemorated, he suggests, as pioneers in other spheres whose eponyms are undisputed-the Strait of Magellan, Mount Everest, Halley's comet. But his book is for fellow specialists, and he does not advocate that laymen learn the jargon of the clinical conference...
...British importer killed by gunfire as he stepped into his car; the three terrorists blown up by their own crude bomb; the pencil bomb that went off last week in a British airman's kit bag just before it was to be put aboard an R.A.F. jet Comet bound for Britain. The British have stationed 37,000 troops on Cyprus, which is smaller than Los Angeles County. In the eternal check against sabotage they go so far as to unscrew the caps of toothpaste tubes and sniff face powder...
...lost the race to use the first pure jets on the Atlantic run with revenue passengers when BOAC's Comet IV three weeks ago began a weekly London-New York run. BOAC hoped to follow up its head start by beginning daily New York-London flights on Nov. 14. Last week BOAC's Comets were grounded by a wildcat strike of maintenance workers that stopped all BOAC flights out of London Airport. The strike was called by longtime Communist Union Leader Sid Maitland after five maintenance men said they were fired for refusing to work overtime, the climax...
...minutes. Soon after that Comet took off, another (five paying passengers, 23 freeloaders), charged off Idlewild's runway, made London in a snappy six hours, twelve minutes, some five hours less than normal piston flight. Thus, on the anniversary of Russia's Sputnik, began a new era in the 20th century's fast-changing history. The commercial jet age was a dramatic reality...