Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon, lovely moon, with thy beautiful face...
...Your photographs of the backside! of the moon [Jan. 10] recalled an excursion into poetry, in the 19th century,| by the housemaid of Sir Edmund Gosse. After a moonlight evening in as English garden she presented to her master next; morning these immortal lines...
...never predictable or clear cut; more so live than on the records. Often the breaks in songs performed are unrecognizable if you don't know the records well. But if you do know what he's working on, the abstraction and suggestiveness of his music is delightful. Keith Moon is drummer. He's fast, uses two sets at once because he needs them, and breaks a lot of sticks. He plays the drum as an instrument in itself, no less than the guitars, but much more of an enemy. His music serves as punctuation. It is not delicate. John Entwhistle...
Volcanic Activity? At their press conference in the State Department auditorium, the astronauts gave a performance almost as remarkable as their feats in space. As they took turns explaining features on their moon pictures and answering the questions of newsmen, they were articulate, gently humorous and impressively well-informed about lunar geology. Anders avoided taking sides in the controversy over whether the moon's features are of primarily volcanic or meteoric origin. He reported seeing what seemed to be lava flows and cinder cones, and said that photographs of the back side of the moon revealed "anamolous dark regions...
Lovell took the occasion to put an end to speculation that the lunar surface was colored, and that the "sunrise glow" he had reported from Apollo 8 indicated the moon may have a trace of atmosphere. "The only color that we could see in the universe from our vantage point was the earth," he said. The glow, Lovell now believes, was actually the corona of the sun, visible just before lunar sunrise. He also observed that "the stars don't even twinkle out near the moon," a strong indication that there is no lunar atmosphere...