Word: martian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Posing as "an alien curiosity" from outer space, Romains reports on the earth as it might appear to a canny Martian...
Romains's Martian observes everything with an innocent eye. Earth's landscape is scarred by "agglomerations" and "filaments" called cities and roads; its inhabitants "walk about in flexible, artificial envelopes called clothing." But soon he is dealing with the more interesting question of earth's society. "Morality," he writes, "seems to be a product-and a precarious one-of civilized life, and corresponds to no profound needs within the individual"; as for religion, its "prayers, rites and ceremonies suffice in the eyes of many, particularly women, to excuse other aspects of behavior." Man's accomplishments...
...worried geneticist is especially pleased to hear from the space blacksmiths that manned, two-way journeys even to the moon will be unlikely for at least a decade. By the time the first human starts home from Mars, the earth's biologists should know enough about Martian life to keep it from damaging life on the home planet...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.) wins the week's cigar for clever titling with "Will the Real Martian Please Stand...
...produced and directed Aparajito, spent less money to film the entire movie than a Hollywood producer would to acquire the services of a single star, say Tab Hunter or Tony Curtis. And Ray's intentions are equivalently modest; he creates no fantastic world of cops and robbers, martian monster, or negligeed chorus girls; no suspense to glue our bodies to the theater seats, and no romance to send our spirits flying to an easier and happier world than...