Word: lifelessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether or not Mars is eventually proved lifeless, never-say-die exobiologists are looking forward to investigating Jupiter and perhaps taking another look at Venus for signs of living organisms...
Convinced by the findings of the Apollo missions that the moon is lifeless, the earth's two superpowers were concentrating on the next target of opportunity: Mars. A pair of spacecraft, America's Mariner 9 and Russia's Mars 2, were in orbit around the Red Planet, seeking out conditions and features that might support life and radioing their findings back to earth across more than 90 million miles of space. A capsule ejected from Mars 2 lay on the Martian surface, possibly equipped with instruments that could sample the soil and the atmosphere and detect the presence of life...
...Rabbit Redux (Rabbit led back), Rabbit, at 36, is still married to Janice. The time is the apogee of the Swinging Sixties. Rawest obscenities have become household words. Adulteries are public events, and man is about to land on the moon-a lifeless body that Updike employs to suggest the deadness of Rabbit's own existence. Janice still has her special little knack for attracting attention. "I'm searching for a valid identity and I suggest you do the same," she tells Rabbit in her best TV talk-show jargon. Her search...
...little new, little substance. The Seven Point Peace Plan, which told Nixon if he set a date for withdrawal of all U.S. military forces from Vietnam, the Vietnamese would agree to a ceasefire and release the POW's, was repeated in part. The Peace Plan, the breakthrough in the lifeless Paris talks that Nixon had chosen to ignore, was now being "put to the people rather than the diplomats," one of the speakers told the rally. Now it was the job of the people to get Nixon to pick up the phone, talk to the Vietnamese and set the date...
...Donleavy writes sad and lonely books. From The Ginger Man to The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, his fictional worlds seem to spin through an otherwise lifeless universe. They are closed worlds, their boundaries no more distant than the most prominent erectile tissue. Alone, without context or meaning, the flesh...