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...When the doughnut-shaped Van Allen radiation belts were discovered (TIME, May 12. 1958), optimists predicted that unshielded space vehicles could avoid them by taking off on space voyages by way of the "holes"' over the polar regions. But the deadly, invisible streams of the new-found radiation lash through the polar holes, as well as through the whole solar system. Space vehicles making the short run to the moon may be able to pick quiet intervals between the flares, but voyages to Mars or Venus will take several months. During this considerable period a flare is likely...
Tiger is anything but. His stripes are the marks of fortune's lash on his dark skin; his claws exist only in his mind and are unsheathed only when he swipes at matters his naive mind cannot understand. Tiger is a Trinidad peasant who made a half charming, half pathetic appearance in A Brighter Sun (TIME, Jan. 19, 1953). In that book, Tiger went from mud hut to modest brick house on wartime U.S. dollars. Now Tiger is back, and he has two major problems. The bigger one comes from having driven his primitive mind to absorb Plato...
...nine more conferences, from London to Moscow to Japan; Dulles threw his influence behind the Marshall Plan and NATO, drafted and negotiated the Japanese Peace Treaty in a brilliant, yearlong, 125,000-mile performance in which he applied the lessons he had learned at Versailles. "If you use the lash," he said, "if you constrict Japanese economic opportunity, you will create a peace that can only lead to bitter animosity and in the end drive Japan into the orbit of Russia...
...book becomes almost worth reading when, in one incredible passage that may well benumb the entire Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, the author has a tribune tongue-lash the Senate: "You, Romans, friends and countrymen, have heard me before. I come not to honor Rome but to bury her." Author Caldwell ends her story as Lucanus meets Christ's mother, in a din of paraphrased Hail Marys and purple Passion ("She stood against the background of the hot and brazen mounts, and it seemed to him that she had grown very tall, and that she was clothed in pure light...
...quote from Emerson's essay Compensation seems fitting: "The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side...