Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wastrel is again James Tyrone, the elder brother who haunted his way through Long Day's Journey into Night: now, he is measurably nearer to the grave which is his best hope. The slut (this time paradoxically endowed with a strange secret of virginity) is a huge, slatternly girl, both proud and ashamed of her physical bulk and power...
...present, Monro is studying a specific, "nuts and bolts" proposal--a long memorandum prepared by one of the Masters who is most concerned about the future of non-Honors tutorial...
Unfortunately, the show has many distressing disappointments. Calder, the grand Yankee sculptor whose works have for so long been characterized by their steady high quality, exhibits three mobiles but only one of them displays any of Calder's usual skill. The other two move only under strong provocation (I had to fan them with my notebook close by before they deigned to revolve) and when they finally do go into orbit, the objects don't describe a flexible and communicative arc in space...
They're sending up a rocket to photograph the other side of the United States Government. Here to fore un photographed, this side, always dark and turned away from us, has long been a subject of great scientific curiosity and intense speculation. The old rivalry over which branch of the Armed Services would take responsibility for the rocket is over now, and, following a joint declaration by the White House staff, and several misfires, the huge thing has finally gone up. It will be directed through a previously planted tracking station somewhere between the Crater of Security Clearance...
...their arrival at Camp David have been identified. Pravda reports that Mr. K requested, and was shown, a film of the Nautilus' voyage under the polar icecap. The President requested, and was shown, a western called "Warlock." One of those present told the Times that the movies was "very long, very bloody, very dull." This reporter saw "Warlock," and concurs. (New York Times, 10/19/59...