Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cosmic eye this particular universe -the Milky Way-is a wispy thing, a puff of tiny particles which are billions of stars. Somewhat disk-shaped, it floats in space, spinning on its shorter axis. The sun is one of these stars, located some four-fifths of the way out from center of the universe toward the edge. At that point its spinning motion is 155 miles per second, yet it takes 200 million years to round the circuit. Ten times the earth has been around, clinging to the sun, from which, scientists believe, the earth spun off two billion years...
...Hindu measures his own brevity by a vast time sense: a day in the life of Brahma runs roughly to 4,320,000,000 earthly years. Siva, as Lord of the Dance, is sometimes represented as both masculine and feminine (see cut) and incarnates the pulse of this cosmic life. "In the night of Brahma," says an Indian scholar, "Nature is inert, and cannot dance till Siva wills it: He rises from his rapture, and dancing sends through inert matter pulsing waves of awakening sound, and lo! matter also dances, appearing as a glory round about...
Colonel Frederick L. Devereux,* Director of Civilian Protection in New York's Westchester County, last week suggested a cure for the playful spirit with which many U.S. citizens meet blackouts. He pointed out that during blackouts people who take them seriously often feel "that some great cosmic thing was about to happen, as though creation were about to occur and a new world were to be born." Said he: "I suggest that while the protective forces are on the physical alert all other residents of Westchester declare a spiritual alert between the warning siren and the all-clear signal...
Ranging in subject from the philosophically cosmic to the personal love-affair, Brinnin remains contemporary in context and imagery. The poet's "wasteland" is constantly evident in the volume, but this poet also finds room for hope and for reaffirmation of individual dignity. Poems like "Every Earthly Creature" and "O Troubled Heart" combine an honest appraisal of the shortcomings of our age with an artist's answer to contemporary despair, and thus add philosophic depth to the poignant cry for lost riches in lyrics like "Prague." If, ultimately, it is in the more personal lyrics, such as "Dissertation on Whose...
...Middle Ages." Later, in "the hypnotic rhythm" of a Parkway drive to Jones Beach, they move on a road so magnificently designed that it makes a car "an instrument capable of making a landscape sing"; among many other cars in "an incredibly vast dance," as if some all-but-cosmic power had caught a whole race into planetary motion...