Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bother the thriving organization of imaginative zealots called the British Interplanetary Society, whose purpose is "development of interplanetary exploration and communication." Last week the B.I.S. had a record 580 members, including such philosophical well-wishers as George Bernard Shaw. The most active members are scientists from Britain's great research laboratories. Said one of these undauntedly: "So far, the whole [high altitude rocket] program is American. We cannot afford to sponsor direct development. But even if we have nothing but pencil and paper, we intend to keep at the problem." Space Suit. With pencil, paper and soaring imagination, Britain...
...mechanical. Lectures this winter will cover psychological and philosophical problems. B.I.S. members believe it is not too soon to think seriously about such matters - that the age of space flight is not far away. A speaker at one meeting asked a ringing question: "Looking out across immensity to the great suns and circling planets . . . can you believe that man is to spend all his days cooped and crawling on the surface of-this tiny -this moist pebble with its clinging film of air?" The members answered unanimously with resounding noes"noes...
...question the members consider settled: they are not nationalistic, even on a global scale. The problem of Martians invading the earth has been duly considered and dealt with. Says one B.I.S. man: "It would be a very great annoyance to have been anticipated in space flight. But we ought to make them honorary members of the society...
...which "Christians, Jews and Gentiles, believers and unbelievers ... to some extent stand together." God as Creator is a mystery as difficult of comprehension as the belief that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. "The existence of the creature alongside God is the great puzzle and miracle ... It is the genuine question about existence, which is essentially and fundamentally distinguished from the question which rests upon error, 'Is there a God?' That there is a world is the most unheard-of thing, the miracle of the grace...
...twins, its love-making that is really leg-pulling, the play swarms with rather impractical jokes. Then there are Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, those relentless cutups whom a later age would have relegated to the funny papers. They also have a way of dragging Malvolio-a great comic figure by virtue of being almost tragic-down to their own level...