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...minstrels of medieval Europe, the moon was a kind of celestial junkyard. They consigned to lunar banishment a dolorous assortment of such earthly intangibles as broken vows, fruitless tears and misspent time. Today the moon is a repository of more substantial material: it harbors a pile of gear, left behind by Apollo astronauts, that includes one moon buggy, $5 million worth of camera equipment and two golf balls that Alan Shepard whacked with a makeshift six iron to unplayable lies in a boulder-strewed valley. Still, this lunar refuse is paltry by comparison with all of the man-made debris...
...MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN by Eugene O'Neill...
Eugene O'Neill was, supremely, a vernacular poet who found his most haunting rhythms in the profoundly mixed emotions of his characters, his most memorably dissonant sonorities in the muddled motives with which they confront memory, fate and each other. A Moon for the Misbegotten, his last completed play, is structurally the simplest of the late great work. It is also perhaps the most anguished, because O'Neill was searching so hard for a ray of hope in the dawn that completes this long night's journey into...
...black American father, Mercer gained renown at Bricktop's Paris café in the 1930s and went to the U.S. in 1939. As her husky contralto began to fail, she honed her unique blend of cadenced speech and vocalizing, delivering such songs as Fly Me to the Moon and While We 're Young with consummate phrasing and timing. Said she: "It's all in the punctuation...
...generally Masons say they have learned more clearly how to think about certain development issues. "The knowledge itself is not as important as how you view the question at hand," Ban Ki Moon says. "We have been taught an analytical framework which the K-School is famous for and have benefitted from this method...