Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago, ruddy, moon-faced Professor Barrois came out, in the first of two articles for the biweekly Presbyterian Life, with some plainer talk. In the first installment, called "Where We Stand Together," he is as mild and tactful as ever. He concedes that "we Protestants are not at war with Rome. We do not believe, for instance, that Catholics are 'idolaters,' or that the Mass is 'for sale.' And Catholics do not regard us necessarily as religious anarchists who do not bother about the Ten Commandments . . . Catholics and Protestants both believe," he says...
Studio One (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). June Moon, with Glenda Farrell...
...Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona and Prokofiev's The Duenna (TIME, June 14, 1948), was scratching his head for a surprise for his 1949 season. A friend told him about Haydn's 172-year-old dramma giocoso II Mondo della Luna (The World of the Moon), wherein a charlatan astronomer and some frolicsome servants persuade a fat, foolish father to bless the marriage of his daughter to a poet by taking him on a trip to the moon. It sounded like fun, but the first problem was to find the score. Il Mondo had been resurrected...
...show. Next biggest hit: the eminently singable, notably contemporary English libretto of onetime Berlin Music Critic John Gutman, who now has a job in Manhattan's Wall Street. Sample, from a quintet pondering the advisability of admitting the miserly father to the "harmonious" life on the moon...
Palomar's Schmidt (called the "Big S") has a 72-in. mirror and a 48-in. correcting plate. It takes 14 in.-by-14 in. pictures that cover a square of sky as wide as twelve moons placed edge to edge in a row. The 200-in. sees only half the diameter of a single moon. At that rate, it would take the 200-in. about 5,000 years to observe the whole...