Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles, no ordinary escape capsule is likely to survive the heat and shock of return to the lower atmosphere. Besides a parachute, it should have wings of a sort, plus rocket propulsion so that the crew can choose a reasonably favorable part of the earth to land on. Except for trying to hit Kansas instead of Antarctica, the crew should be able to leave everything else to automatic devicing. "About all that is expected of them." said Stanley, "is that they return to earth alive and express with eloquence their reactions to space flight...
...have let them shrink you into a gigantic inferiority complex." Pastor Mangrum, who knows his licensed beverages from five years in a Skid Row parish in Detroit, told the tavern owners to join churches and work with community organizations. "If one denomination does not have need of you, except when it wants back-door contributions extracted through implied blackmail . . . you will find that the traditional Christian groups want you and need...
...More money is paid elsewhere. "I worked on a movie," said Miller, "and made exactly the compromises that I was forced to make in TV-except that I made them for a lot more money." ¶ Queasy sponsors want "happy shows for happy people." Lack of artistic freedom ("I'm the lost soul of you chappies") drove Chayevsky to Hollywood. "I didn't make hardly any money out of the movie Marty," he rumbled. "But we had a ball and it was fun." As examples of what TV -"a malevolent juggernaut that's gonna chew...
...world's great repositories of primitive art is Harvard's Peabody Museum-where few people except students of anthropology ever set foot. Just across the Charles River, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts plays host to hundreds of visitors each day, but it has had no primitive art to show them. Last week the two museums joined forces under an agreement whereby Boston's Fine Arts will exhibit Harvard's primitive treasures, celebrated their new partnership with a massive exhibition of masterpieces of primitive art, with the Peabody's best supplemented by loans from private...
...attitudes never have any bearing on its private ones: "It is the land of Double Think and Double Speak" where ''words are used as . . . a device for concealment": 2) that the main concern of every Irishman is saving face, and 3) that no Irishman is truly happy except when he is "streeling" from bar to bar, going to a funeral or engaging in a national Fuss. Author Tracy has kicked up her own share of Fusses since she made Ireland her literary beat. She is doubtless viewed with mistrust by the large school of Irish writers...