Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble in the Teahouse. The new American conquerors, benevolent and paternalistic in the manner celebrated in The Teahouse of the August Moon, set up Okinawa's first university. The U.S. Government lavished funds on it and encouraged healthy contributions from private U.S. groups. Michigan State College supplied teachers and equipment. The university was soon flourishing, with 1,760 students and 125 faculty members. It flourished with trouble too. Students, probably encouraged by Japanese-educated faculty members, began to agitate for the return of the islands to Japan. Some students supported the Communist-front Okinawa People's Party, sent...
...film does Director Joshua Logan's hand lose its expert competence: in their reconciliation, Murray and Marilyn are allowed to chew a bit too much scenery, and the CinemaScope closeups are so brobdingnagian that the pores on the actor's face stand out like craters on the moon...
...first, scientists thought that the moon would travel in an orbit ranging from 200 to 800 miles in altitude, whipping around the earth every 90 minutes at 1,800 m.p.h. but recent tests indicate that the moon may rise to 1.500 miles in height at the far end of its elliptical orbit, travel at 1,900 m.p.h. As the moon slows in speed, it will dip closer and closer to the earth's atmosphere until, inevitably, it will disappear in a flash of friction...
Some skeptical scientists have wondered if Vanguard would ever get off the ground. Navy specialists are sure the man-made moon will rise as planned. Says Physicist John P. Hagen. the Navy's director of Project Vanguard: "It is fair to say that at the moment we see no problem we cannot solve as scheduled...
...course, nothing disgusts Fernand more than himself. 'His ruthless 5 a.m. self-analysis reveals a life as barren, lonely and pockmarked as the face of the moon. Fernand has lost all hope of heaven, but retains a superstitious fear of hell. His sole deity is the "phenobarbitone-God." Only two passions dominate him: laziness and cigarette smoking. He lies on his bed by the hour looking at the wall. Indeed, the only decision Novelist Dutourd puts to his hero in the whole course of this Novel is whether or not to get up and go to the bathroom. Fernand...