Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Star Facts of Life. Astronomers, meeting at Radcliffe College, in Cambridge, discussed even vaster forces (not yet under human control). They told how stars are formed, over billions of years, out of cosmic...
This was good news for lonely hearts who fear that the human race may be alone in the universe. Life as we know it is possible only on a planet, and planets, until recently, were considered freaks. Their formation was believed to require the near-collision of two stars, an exceedingly rare event...
Whipple's theory changed all that. Contracting globules may have filled the galaxy with millions of circling planets. Many of these may harbor "human races...
...human race is riddled with worms. They coil and squirm and chew through most of the world's population. When the average man dies, a host of worms dies with him. But wormkind goes wriggling on, to infest his children, reduce their vitality, cause disfiguring sores or swellings, and lower their resistance...
Winters' comparisons of Robinson with other poets are crisp, e.g., "[Thomas] Hardy describes the natural landscape in detail and implies the human tragedy. Robinson analyzes the tragedy and implies the landscape. . . ." The chief fault of this book is that poems are cited, not quoted, and the reader has to have Robinson's Collected Poems beside him to follow the criticism. But that may not be a bad idea...