Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the moon rotates on its axis only about one-thirtieth as fast as the earth, stars move slowly across the lunar skies, making it easier to track and photograph them. Because lunar gravity is only one-sixth the earth's, structural distortions caused by the sheer weight of large telescope mirrors and their supports will be dramatically lessened. Some scientists have estimated that telescope mirrors as large as 2,000 in. in diameter (ten times the earth's largest) could be used effectively on the moon...
...solve the problems of navigation, NASA went straight to the nation's leading authority on inertial guidance. The system devised by Draper for Apollo includes telescopes, a sextant, and a computerized inertial reference "platform" that tells astronauts where they are in space, where they are headed and how fast. But how could they be sure that it would work?, the NASA brass wanted to know. "I told them I'd go along and run it myself," recalls Draper. The on-board navigation systems have proved so accurate that, if they had to, the crew of Columbia could...
...course, if the director, Louis Criss, should require any defense, he need only point to no less a name than Emerson--consistency is the bugaboo of little minds, and Criss will have none of it. He always keeps the pace moving fast (this is one three-hour Loeb production that doesn't drag), sometimes too fast (the ending, particularly, is quite confusing), while all the time throwing in lets of contemporary asides. I could quibble over whether many of the adlibs should have been included. (Mentioning Bristol, Disneyland, and Somerville in the same line doesn't strike me as particularly...
Generally, the funds that rose the fast est last year fell the fastest this year...
Crusoe II is alone and traveling fast on an interior journey. Gradually abandoning rationalism as flat and absurd, he whizzes through Descartes, Locke, Freud and existentialism, all experienced not as abstractions but as personal modes of apprehending himself and the mysterious island around him. Like Speranza, Tournier's novel is an island, unique, self-sufficient, imaginative, well worth exploring, and with a number of minor marvels to reveal...