Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon-probe Pioneer, which burned out over the South Pacific after staying in space for 43 hours, rose 79,000 miles-or only one-third of the distance to the moon. But it made a much nearer miss than the figures seem to show. The earth's gravitational field drops off with the square of the distance. With only 2% more thrust or only about 580 more m.p.h. peak velocity. Pioneer could have passed the moon* and escaped from the earth forever...
...Large, athletic, exuberant and humorous, he seemed to be on earth for the motion he got out of it," a classmate remarked later. "Big, brisk, and breezy," his impetuous cordiality which would later win him many admirers alienated those whose friendship he sought...
Most of these situations are still effective when well-handled; if that were not the case, serious American drama would practically be wiped out. But Mr. Lamkin's dialogue is spotted with cliches. "And we laughed, oh, how we laughed. We were the happiest people on earth, without a care," and "Talking won't bring it back, Isabel. It's gone, it's gone," are representative samples. Mr. Lamkin writes so well for Mr. Scott that it is difficult to understand how he can write so badly for nearly everyone else. Many of these excrescences will probably be written...
Much as Maine Painter John Marin (another Stieglitz protege) chose the sky as his province, Dove made the earth and sea his domain. To get closer to both, he moved out of Manhattan, where he had been a successful illustrator, and bought a farm in Westport, Conn., began raising chickens. When that venture failed, he tried his hand at being a lobsterman. Art, he decided, should not depend so much on natural forms as on substituting equivalent images for them. He was searching for a means of expression that would not depend on representation, that "should have order, size, intensity...
...house, where he studied the skies. By next morning the happy student had reached two important conclusions: that angelic conduct is by no means so spiritual as most people imagine, and that the surest way to reach the heights of angelic bliss is to keep strictly down to earth...