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...achieved an orbit with an apocynthion (high point) much less than 50,000 ft., Columbia would have been unable to reach it. As it turned out, departure from the moon was triumphantly smooth. Of course, even after lift-off and redocking, there were still the dangers of the homeward trip. Control failures could cause the spacecraft to re-enter the earth's atmosphere at too steep an angle and burn to a cinder, or at so flat an angle that it would bounce off the outer fringes of the atmosphere far into space. There its oxygen would be exhausted before...
...seemed just the time for such painting. Wordsworth was hymning the virtues of Lucy's untrodden ways, Rousseau hailed the natural man, Thomas Gray's ploughman had plodded his weary wav homeward, and William Blake deplored the "dark satanic mills" that despoiled England's green and pleasant land. But most of Constable's contemporaries were concerned, as Constable often complained, with "the elevated and noble walks of art, i.e., preferring the shaggy posterior of a satyr to the moral feeling of landscape...
Floating Hospital. A second day in a second port (the Bahamian Las Vegas, Freeport) imparts a healthy glow to the passengers for the homeward cruise. By now, the romances that are to be are under way, while the unmatched and the uninterested have found other outlets for their energies. A few eccentrics begin to make their presence known. One woman writes a note to the cruise director: "There is a group of men and women aboard ship," she begins, "who are using fictitious names-one is a chief of police, here with his mistress or possibly unknown wife not united...
...Apollo crew's itinerary called for spending the remainder of the day and all day Thursday in housekeeping chores and navigation tests while coasting back toward earth. There were also to be two more live telecasts to earth from the spacecraft in the course of its journey homeward...
...next two groups of essays, Nuptials (1938) and Summer (1954), Camus' ideas about how to combat life's absurdities deepen as he faces the dark despondency he finds in Europe. Like a fallen angel, he keeps looking homeward for the revitalizing sensual graces of Algeria. And in these journeys are intimations of the ideas in his future writings. In the heavy stone city of Oran, he finds a refreshing boredom in the ordinary down-to-earth commercialism that appears as the setting for his later novel, The Plague. Among the flowers and ruins at Tipasa, Camus discovers that...