Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Captain Shotover Alexander MacMillan struggles manfully with a nearly impossible assignment. Although he has moments of effectiveness, he often overacts, and he does not convey the impression of age. Mr. Lyons (Hector) can not fit his irascible, humorous manner to the serious lines he has to deliver, but when he is supposed to be funny, he frequently...
...light and gravitation diminishes inversely with the square of the distance from their source. This law is regarded as one of the fundamentals of physics, but Dr. Lowther is eying it closely. If the returning radio signals from his artificial planet are either too strong or too weak to fit the theory, it may mean that they and light (and perhaps gravitation too) diminish not with the square but with the 1.999 power of the distance. Such a result would call for an entirely new conception of the universe...
Apparently, then, the novel more than an unusually (if for the most part extremely skeptic's view of the love and of Paris. But this description doesn't quite fit; disturbing notes cropping up. The autobiography out to be a fraud, the literary of an S.B.H. employee, but it is "applied literature", it is not fabrication, and it is besides a and powerful piece of writing. gross Lormier at one point forces Hermelin to apologize to his knees. Porteur commits when photographers release his through the press...
...World War II. He was the only child of Stalin's first wife. Vasily and a sister, Svetlana, believed now living in Moscow, were the children of the dictator's second wife, Nadezhda Allilueva, whom Stalin shot to death inside their Kremlin apartment in 1932 during a fit of rage...
Regret is the modish literary emotion this spring; rue is back in fashion; hope's hemline has been let down to fit the century's middle age. So it seems, at any rate, on the evidence of two collections of criticism published this week...