Word: luna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million, enough to pave 3,900 miles of highway-and Brazil has no naval air arm to put aboard her. Argentina has spent $1 billion on defense since 1954. "Every time Ecuador buys armaments," notes Peruvian Foreign Minister Raul Porras, "we buy as much or more"; yet General Antonio Luna Ferreccio retorts for the brass: "Peru cannot be more disarmed...
...prospective sons-in-law feeds him a magic elixir that, he is told, will transport him to the wonderful moon world. Convinced, when he comes to, that he really is on the moon, he encounters various phony lunar marvels (including a tongue-twisting lunar language with phrases like "Luna lena lino lana lino lunala"). In the end, love conquers time and space, but what counts is expressed in one of the opera's jubilant lines: "It's a wonderful life on the moon...
...over the moon and various other floating islands may be slightly further off, but there will be ample chance for dispute here as there has been with claims in the past. Occupation of a territory has usually been the prerequisite to sovereignty over it, and the claim situation on Luna will probably follow that of Antarctica, where there is no colonization but many contested claims...
...COUNT LUNA, by Alexander Lerne/-Holenla (252 pp.; Criferion; $4), cross-pollinates Poe and Kafka to tell two Gothic tales of the occult. The title tale, Count Luna, is set in present-day Vienna. Alexander Jessiersky, frayed scion of a shoddy aristocratic line, fears that a penniless Count Luna whom he has uninten tionally wronged will return from a concentration camp grave to exact revenge. One night he hears footsteps on the floor above his palace study, storms out and plunges a pair of scissors repeatedly into the fleeing, shadowy figure of the intruder -only to discover that...
...letter M apparently goes back to the Chinese Luna constellation Ψwhich in old forms of Hebrew turned into Ψ The Chinese Luna station is San, which is in the solar period Virgo. The astronomical symbol for Virgo: Ψ. To Scholar Moran, all this does more than shed light on the alphabet. Says he: "We are able to trace as never before the golden thread which runs through human history from the barbarity of human sacrifice and the earliest glimmerings of a vengeful God to the highest revelation that we have of ourselves as the children...