Word: detachement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Branch Line. The LOR system will use different tactics. When the spaceship approaches the moon, it will burn a small amount of fuel in its retrorockets and nudge itself into an orbit about 100 miles above the lunar surface. Then, instead of descending, it will detach a small "bug" containing two of its three-man crew. The bug will have rocket engines, a communication system and a modest supply of fuel as well as "biological support" to keep the crew alive. After it separates from the orbiting spaceship, a brief burst from its engines will put it into an elliptical...
...evaluation of the Government's Cuban policy. The petition, constructed as an open letter to President Kennedy, was signed by Edmund Wilson, Lewis Mumford, Lillian Hellman, Harry Levin, Norbert Wiener, Reuben Brower, Albert Guerard, David Owen, Morton White and Eric Bentley, among others. It called for an attempt to "detach the Castro regime from the Communist bloc by working for a diplomatic detente and a resumption of trade relations...
...poetry ("Put the Sense back in Sensitivity" will be our slogan), and I shall nominate Arthur Freeman to charter membership. "Cambridge Seasonal" is an urbane, amusing, richly textured, and formal satire on Cambridge. The characters are old Cambridge ladies "in black woolens," young Cambridge lovers "who link, unlink, attach, detach," professors "with owlish eyes, benign white features, glossy skin, and crystal-clear clock-work within," a townie "with raw brown eyes, red hands, warts, weatherbeaten levis, and a real beery leer," and even a Radcliffe girl ("Something from Radcliffe cycles by"). And the consistently gentle tone and florid style...