Word: martianize
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...liven up the opening of a mental health exhibit in London, Britain's waggish Minister of Labor, Sir Walter Monckton, tried on a brain-wave recording device for size, came out looking as if he were a fugitive from a Martian barbershop...
...first interplanetary padre, confronted by an antennaed Martian or fly-eyed Venusian, will hardly know what to say about the Gospel. First he will have to find out how the space creature stands with God: Is he in an unfallen state like Adam and Eve before the apple? Is he fallen but redeemed and, if so, how? Is he under the Lordship of Christ, and should he be baptized...
...filmed TV series over the BBC. Called Orson Welles Sketch Book, the one-man show will feature Welles telling stories about bullfighting and black magic, or just chatting. None of the subjects seems capable of scaring the British as successfully as Welles did New Jerseyites with his Martian broadcast...
Promising Canals. The human eye, which sees continuously, sometimes catches Mars through the telescope when its image happens to be standing still for a second or so. Then the observer sees a fleeting vision of the Martian surface, covered with fascinating, intricate detail...
...cannot record what he sees, however, since the eye does not store an image and the brain does not act fast enough to remember it accurately. This is why astronomers do not agree about the famous Martian canals. Some have seen them; some have not, even in years of trying. No one has ever taken a photograph of them...