Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banking heavily on his friendship with the West and his reputation as a reasonable Arab, Jordan's King Hussein went to the U.S. last week on a delicate mission. Speaking for both himself and his latter-day ally, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hussein sought U.S. support for softening Israel's hardening terms for peace. He went at the job with vigor. Seemingly popping up everywhere, the King dashed from TV stations to speakers' platforms to conferences. He appeared on Face the Nation, delivered a major address at Georgetown University, had lunch at Washington...
...lucid structure of a Beethoven Ninth Symphony. "It's a great architectural monument," he says, "but it's not my kind of music because it draws a distinction between man and nature. My music must represent efforts at becoming unified with nature. The composer's mission is to present sound in the original, unpolished form...
...Apollo began to plunge back toward the earth from its peak altitude, its engine again fired, increasing its speed and ensuring that the craft would plunge into the earth's atmosphere at the 25,000-m.p.h. velocity that will be reached by a returning lunar mission. The maneuver was designed to test Apollo's heat shield against temperatures much higher than those encountered by Gemini and Mercury spacecraft, which re-entered the atmosphere from their orbital missions at about 17,000 m.p.h...
...language every bit as wild as the chase itself. Time is a liquid, flowing back and forth. One second is the future, and the platoon's officer (Michael Crawford) has been captured by the Germans. The next is the past, and he is just starting out on his mission. Lunacy is the order of the day: staff officers exchange bubble-gum cards in the heat of conflict. An ex-cavalry colonel shoots his disabled tank. When a man is wounded, his wife abruptly appears on the battlefield. "It hurts," he groans, looking at his shattered legs...
...literature rests upon a single point: as W. H. Auden put it, "We must love one another or die." In How I Won the War, Director Richard Lestersharpens the point pictorially but blunts it philosophically by focusing on a platoon of World War II tommies hellbent on a suicide mission-building an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines in North Africa...