Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face of it, the space flight had little pertinence to the problems, the agonies of earth. It was possible to look at the moon over a Harlem or Watts rooftop and feel only bitterness at the money spent, the vast effort made, in a cause that would not alter a single life, a single dwelling in the ghetto. And yet the event was really incalculable in its consequences. Nothing comparable has happened in man's history, except possibly the great ocean voyages that led to the discovery of the New World -and to the transformation of Western...
...town recruits unearthed by the traveling scouts, displays Perusal's Oar, a leprously painted dream abstract crowned by a monster lobster claw. Another out-of-town eccentric, Walter McNamara from Reno, also displays an amusing work. His Soft Ware with Non-Tongue Plaster looks like nothing on earth except perhaps a telephone switchboard that some slap-happy electrician has partially torn apart...
Total Theater. A space opera for children, Menotti's Help, Help, The Globolinks is as different from his 1951 Christmas pageant Amahl and the Night Visitors as a shepherd is from an astronaut. The plot centers on the invasion of Earth by a race from outer space known as Globolinks. They speak a kind of pidgin-electronese, and their touch can turn a human into a Globolink within 24 hours. Though the Globolinks are immune to man's weapons, it turns out that they are allergic to the sound of music. After a number of close encounters, they...
Temple Trophies. Except for a few tantalizing hints ("I come not to bring peace but a sword"), little of Jesus' militancy appears in the Gospels. The reason, argues Brandon, was that Christianity early in its history underwent an earth-shaking trauma: the fall of Jerusalem. In A.D. 70, the legionaries of the Emperor Vespasian and his son Titus put down a four-year rebellion led by a group of Jewish rebels known as the Zealots, and destroyed the city. In Rome, where Titus returned in triumph brandishing trophies from the ruined Temple, feelings were running high against Jewish intransigence...
...during a holdup, Tank, blinded by resentment and fumes of booze, turns him in for $1,000 in reward money. Assailed by guilt, he abruptly endows a sidewalk preacher and a bunch of barflies with $20 bills. Militants spot the trail of green and run Tank to earth. Almost gratefully he accepts their revenge: a bullet in the stomach...