Word: frail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like the men who first set out to cross continents on foot and oceans in frail ships, the astronauts seemed undaunted by the danger and challenged by the unknown. "We've studied the mission," said Spacecraft Commander Borman, "and we've studied the vehicle. We have faith in the guys who are helping us on the ground, and we have faith in the guys who built the machines. We wouldn't go if we didn't think the mission was worth the risks...
Galileo's 17th century use of the telescope to study the heavens spawned a host of moon stories. The Man in the Moone, written by Francis Godwin, Bishop of Llandoff, and published in 1638, offered a hero who was carried to his destination on a frail raft pulled by swans. Unaware of the vacuum in space, the traveler had no difficulty breathing on the trip, but he did find that his weight lessened as he left the earth. That remarkable scientific insight by Godwin preceded Newton's discovery of the laws of gravity by many years...
...Persian Gulf is an important neighborhood in today's world. Britain is planning to complete its withdrawal from the island of Bahrain and the Tru-cial States along the Gulf in 1971, and so the frail but oil-rich little sheikdoms provide a tempting target. Supporters of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser seek to dominate the desert land; the Russians at present need no oil, but would like to deny the oil to the West. Soviet ships now ply the Indian Ocean, and early this year nosed into the Persian Gulf on courtesy visits. With such forces...
...look or act like a secondhand Julie Christie. Not especially prepossessing or crafty, she is totally free of mannerisms, as natural as someone on a Chelsea sidewalk. Her fellow players seem equally and effectively plucked from real life. The best of them is Donald Sutherland, as a frail, talentless aristocrat, whose tentative worship of the Beautiful People is so well portrayed that it turns a bit part into a leading role...
...cries in the night, cobwebs on the tower stairs-all the exquisitely accumulated gothic horrors-these are the forte of frail, large-eyed women novelists. Joyce Carol Oates, a brilliant writer, offers an updated variation on the genre by taking the American Dream and turning it into a kind of American nightmare...