Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout most of a typical performance, the English rock quartet called The Who live up to their own modest billing: "A good, steady-going, down-to-earth pop group." Their beat is tight and jabbing, their guitar backings crisp. Their songs (Happy Jack, I Can See for Miles) aim to divert listeners rather than convert them. Un like current groups performing along the protest-and-prophecy axis, they do not come on like four hoarse men of the Apocalypse. Not at first...
...town was often threatened by the flooding Rhône, there were drainage ditches six feet deep between each villa. To protect salt and wheat stored in villa storerooms from dampness, Vienne's architects partially buried between 50 and 60 empty olive jars upside down in the earth beneath the rooms. Thus infiltrating waters would trap air in each, providing a dry-air barrier beneath the storerooms...
...restrained elegance and comfort. A farmer's son who did not have a pair of his own until he was ten, Salvatore Ferragamo made up for that deprivation with an uncommon love of shoes, and insisted that he had been a shoemaker "in some previous existence upon this earth." Ferragamo opened his own cobbler's shop at eleven and migrated three years later to the U.S., where he took anatomy courses at the University of Southern California in an effort to devise ways of making shoes more comfortable. He was, he said, "consumed with anger and compassion...
When Russia's Venus 4 capsule suddenly fell silent in the thick Venusian atmosphere last October, Soviet scientists assumed that the spacecraft's final readings-a temperature of 520° F. and an atmospheric pressure 15 to 22 times greater than Earth's-described conditions on the planet's surface. Not so, say U.S. Electrical Engineers Arvydas Kliore and Dan Cain. The Venusian at mosphere, they report in the current issue of Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, is much hotter and far more crushing than the Soviets think. On the surface the temperature is actually close...
...scores of literary essays have tried to grasp the causes of his failure. This massive, prolix biography by Author Stallman, a literature professor at the University of Connecticut, comes as a refreshing if formidable change. Professor Stallman refuses to truckle to the notion that all things in heaven and earth are simply dreams in Freudian psychology and rejects the theories of earlier biographers that Crane was a young man driven by fear. His scholarly, if often tedious, volume simply gathers every available scrap of information about Crane and his writing, and assembles it in chronological order. The result unquestionably...