Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jewish traditions of peace and democracy run deep, but the Israelis had been transferred so quickly from the depths of Europe to the heights of superiority in the Middle East that they could not escape the political equivalent of deep-sea divers' bends. The new blood of nationalism ran fast and hot in Israel; sometimes it seemed to be gushing out on the ground. Pleading for more understanding and tolerance of Israel, one sympathetic observer warned: "This could become an ugly little Spartan state...
...into life is to feel that power. Dimly visible inside is the turbine, like a small windmill with close-set vanes. When the starting motor whines, the turbine spins. A tainted breeze blows through the exhaust vent in the tail, followed by a thin grey fog of atomized kerosene. Deep in the engine a single sparkplug buzzes. A spot of fire dances in a circle behind the turbine. Next moment, with a hollow whoom, a great yellow flame leaps out. It cuts back to a faint blue cone, a cone that roars like a giant blowtorch. The roar increases...
Such "future business" of aviation is the special province of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. In three great laboratories (Langley Field, Va., Cleveland, and Ames, Calif.) the earnest, enthusiastic scientists of the NACA are digging out deep-hidden facts about high-speed flight. They put experimental wingshapes in big & little wind tunnels, and test their behavior far above Mach i. They test engines and engine components in wind tunnels too, to see how they behave at great speed, low pressure, low temperature. They devise new, more powerful fuels and high-temperature alloys...
Another Part of the Forest. Lillian Hellman's feral study of family life in the Deep South; acted, tooth & nail, by Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, and a strong supporting cast (TIME...
Likable Sinner. Graham Greene writes with pity; is it possible that he also writes with irony? If so, his irony is so deep that it has escaped the notice of reviewers, and will probably escape most of his readers. He seems to be saying that Scobie-though, God knows, no saint-is in reality a very likable, perhaps admirable, and probably forgivable sinner. And the implicit sympathy with which Author Greene watches his "hero" plod doggedly from one crime to the inevitable next-adultery, sacrilege, murder and suicide-seems to show that Greene is on Scobie's side...