Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engraved. Dozens of times later, I saw similar ladders. The Russians can build a ten-billion electron-volt cyclotron, but a good simple flashlight seems beyond them. Priority goes to what counts; nobody cares if you break a leg hoisting yourself on an airplane, but to put an artificial moon in the sky is something else again...
...shot away from the earth at escape velocity (25,000 m.p.h.), a cheap 8.7-lb. corner reflector can be followed far into space. It can be watched by radar, says the NACA, as it circles the moon and heads back to earth. Its behavior will check the calculations of astronavigators and explore the spaceways for vehicles of the future, carrying instruments...
Bundle of Paradoxes. In less capable hands than Playwright Costigan's, Little Moon might have been eclipsed by the maudlin religiosity that afflicts showmen on rare visits to church. Costigan told his mystic-tinged love story with subtlety, taste and poetic fervor. His unloving lovers were Julie (Joan of Arc) Harris, no stranger to theatrical heights, and Christopher Plummer, the Toronto-born actor who did as well for Costigan as he usually does in Shakespeare. His director was Hall of Fame's skilled George Schaefer. But the playwright had mostly himself to thank for the story, in which...
...from his County Kerry ancestry, he never saw Ireland until 1954. He can talk religion with the most devout, but he has not practiced Roman Catholicism since his high school days ended his formal education. Though Hollywood seems a most unlikely place to have produced the author of Little Moon, he was raised there, played some bit parts as a child, shook off the "meaningless" glamour at 19 to go to Manhattan, "the Mecca of the artist...
Back in the U.S., he had a fling at Hollywood again (26 frustrating weeks under a writer's contract), but began to hit his stride on Hallmark with his adaptations of Cradle Song and The Lark. But Little Moon, exuberantly greeted by most U.S. TV critics last week, seemed to mark a big upturn in Costigan's career. In it he grappled compassionately with "those forces in life that make it difficult or impossible," qualified as the kind of writer once described by Pascal in a line that Costigan likes to quote: ''I most admire those...