Word: hurls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world insistence on Christian detachment from society, as preached by Swiss Theologian Karl Earth. Although Earth "is generally acknowledged to be something of a genius" and "certainly has more imagination than any other living theologian." he has made of his theology a neutralist citadel "from which one could hurl anathemas against both the communists and Western democracies...
...enormously powerful jolt of energy. And Zeus is dangerous, a fact well known to every one of the electricians who swarm over it. The least of Zeus's bolts could burn them to a crisp. When Dr. Tom Putnam, physicist in charge, gets ready to ask Zeus to hurl a trial thunderbolt, he takes elaborate precautions. First he locks the monster in its room. Then he starts the "permissive chain" on the control board...
...anti-scientist massacres following the Flame Deluge. Among the memorabilia which the monastery preserves are scraps of books and diagrams that gradually result in the rediscovery of electricity and other appurtenances of the "Golden Age'' of the 20th century. Proud as Jove, the blind earthlings hurl the megatons all over again. At novel's end, a picked band of the monks, bravely singing old space chanteys, boards a "starship" for outer space and another of man's eternal second chances...