Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suddenly flaring into extreme brilliance, a region hundreds of millions of square miles in area can erupt, shooting a stream of electromagnetic radiation and particles into space. Within 15 minutes after the appearance of some flares, bursts of electromagnetic radiation and some high-energy particles begin to buffet the earth and moon. These are the vanguard of the main and most dangerous body of particles-mostly protons-that arrive about ten hours later...
...calculate, the sun will have used up the hydrogen fuel in its core. It will then begin burning hydrogen in its outer layers and gradually expand-perhaps to 100 times its present size-turning into a giant red globe that will fill most of the sky when seen from earth. Unfortunately, man will not be around to see this spectacular view. The expanding sun will boil away the oceans, melt rock and heat the earth's surface to 4,000 degrees F. It will leave man's dwelling place a lifeless inferno...
Right on target, more than four months after leaving the earth, two Russian spacecraft last week plunged into the murky atmosphere of Venus. Both Venus 5 and Venus 6 had apparently stood up well under the rigors of their 217-million-mile trips. Each spacecraft successfully ejected an instrumented capsule that radioed back information while parachuting toward the Venusian surface. At week's end, however, both capsules appeared to have fallen victim to intense Venusian heat before making their landings on the planet's surface...
Sculptor in Soil. In place of a plot, Jancso exhibits portraits of an embryonic police state, set against a pitiless sky and a plain so vast that it seems to show the curvature of the earth. In his cold eye, war is an aleatory art in which values are as random as bullets. A military band plays an exhilarating march; a moment later the tune is whistled by a doomed man. A woman is run, naked, through a line of whippers; her lover, unable to watch, jumps to his death. Other prisoners follow his example like an audience seeking exits...
...went to Italy that summer. In a village outside Padua he met a girl with eyes as brown as earth. She sang, and he stayed, offering, despite her low station, marriage. The girl refused. She had promised her father never to marry anyone with a title. "Noblemen," she explained, "live in another world...