Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mars and Jupiter, Icarus has a highly elliptical orbit. Like its mythological namesake, it swoops closer to the sun (only 17 million miles away) than any other planetary body of the solar system, and recedes as far away as 183 million miles, beyond the orbit of Mars. In its journey, it moves close to the earth's orbital path every 13 months and narrowly-by astronomical standards-misses the earth once every 19 years. Astronomers have charted its current orbit precisely, and predict that it will pass within 4,000,000 miles of the earth in June...
...know. I'll look next time." Alan, whose ordinariness is well portrayed by Off-Broadway Veteran John Tracy, meanders from Manhattan's Lincoln Center at the beginning to Long Island's Montauk Beach at the finale. Like the man who makes it, the journey is without aim or purpose-but not without poignancy...
...Christian commitment "can be more readily sustained among a small group than in a large impersonal setting." Cosby also rejects activism for its own sake. "Just getting involved," he says, "is often a form of escape." The true Christian ministry, he believes, must be an "inward and outward" journey-meaning both spiritual pilgrimage toward God and dedication to the service of humanity for Christ's sake. "Reconciliation of man with God," says Cosby, "cannot exist outside the reconciliation of man with...
...beginning, The Way West is off on the wrong trek. As was common in the taming of the frontier, there is a great waste of natural resources-in this case, Mitchum, Douglas, Widmark and Albright. All are solid professional performers who deserve to travel first-class next time they journey West...
Nonetheless last week, on its 50th anniversary, Pope Paul VI became the first Roman Catholic pontiff to visit the shrine of Fátima. The "spiritual motive" of his fourth papal journey outside Italy,* Paul announced, was to seek Mary's "intercession in favor of the peace of the church and of the world." The Vatican denied suggestions that the Pope was also making amends to Portugal for his visit to India following its conquest of Portuguese Goa, insisting that the trip would be "completely private" and "rapidissimo." Despite the disclaimer, the Portuguese were ecstatic...