Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Braun, head of the Marshall Space Flight Center, thinks that the first lunar-landing vehicle can make its touch down cautiously, its rocket engine slowing it almost to a halt while the crew men select a good place to land. If they see their landing gear disappearing into impalpable dust, they can rise, move sideways and try another landing somewhere else...
...comic novel succeeds if it is funnier than its own dust jacket, and Elliott Baker's A Fine Madness meets this difficult test nicely. It is not likely that the publishers will be sent into receivership by losses suffered making good the guarantee. Yet, for the worst of reasons, it is impossible to praise this likable first novel without hedging...
John McCormack will not be Speaker forever; perhaps if he is followed by someone with more flexible views on Presidential succession, the Congress will act on the matter. The issue should not be forgotten once the vice-Presidency is again filled. Several of the bills that are currently gathering dust could solve the problem...
...about intellectual pursuits, and warned their congregations not to mix with the Protestant population. "The conservatives of the church," writes Shannon, "struggled to ensnare and pinion the live corpus of the faithful in their own petty vision, a vision of a claustral parish world: tidy, thick-curtained, breathing of dust, every antimacassar firmly in place...
...major works. They are mainly by Postimpressionists, and he, with an instinct for the durable, bought most of them cheaply in the '20s and '30s. He has a Derain that he found on the floor of the artist's studio in Paris, covered with dust. Among his Matisses is one that Matisse originally refused to part with, but, says Paley, "I wheedled...