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...year-old Navy commander hopped off the bottom steps. The relaxed grip of lunar gravity left him as exhilarated as a child in a playground. "Mobility is very great under this 'crushing' one-sixth-G load," Mitchell told Mission Control back home in Houston. Then, with slow, effortless strides, Shepard and Mitchell teamed up for the most ambitious program of lunar exploration ever undertaken. For nearly ten hours, the fifth and sixth human visitors to the moon crisscrossed their Fra Mauro landing site, set up a $25 million package of scientific instruments, collected 108 lbs. of rocks...
Beyond its entertainment value, the book offers a remarkable glimpse into the personal lives of Arab multitudes, Arab attitudes toward justice, money and women become apparent as one microcosm of society applies its energies to Omar's dilemma. Thanks to the author's effortless narrative, the reader hurtles through an exotic world, not realizing until the end that he has been taken on a fascinating trip through the Arab mind...
Cherubim and seraphim were sometimes interchangeable. The traditional pattern for both consisted of a head, hands, feet and six wings-one pair pointing down, one pair up, and the third pair spread to fly. It was a formula that could achieve a hierarchic majesty-no angelic being radiates more effortless authority than the mosaic cherub in St. Mark's in Venice, unfurling his blue wings against a blaze of gold mosaic. In the general humanization of angels during the Renaissance, the cherub's presence quickly succumbed. He became crossed with the amoretti, or baby cupids, of antiquity...
...Effortless. Flip eventually traded his khakis for a bellhop's uniform at San Francisco's Manor Plaza Hotel, where he made his nightclub debut playing a drunk. Soon he was hustling laughs in California saloons and slowly filling a loose-leaf notebook (which he still keeps) with his observations on comedy. Cardinal tenets in the Wilson canon: "Be interesting, be impassive, be effortless." Above all: "Make them remember Flip Wilson as a self-confident man of the world, projecting an 'I Don't Care If You Laugh' attitude...
...desert." Bogie shrugs. "I was misinformed.") As Journalist David Halberstam, 36, puts it: "We admired people who fought the good fight against odds-and kept at it." We did not care so much what the good fight was, so long as it was waged with effortless style and nonchalance. While we could be embarrassingly sentimental, we were, paradoxically, distressed at open emotion. For us, coolness was all. Like Holden Caulfield, the confused but knowing teen-age protagonist of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye-the novel that became the decade's literary touchstone-we detested anything that...