Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SLEEPLESS MOON (375 pp.)-H. E. Bates-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
Happy-Go-Unlucky. For more than half the evening Mister Johnson rather recalls The Teahouse of the August Moon, perhaps because Robert Lewis ably directed both plays. There is a like comedy of nationalities, a comparable use of picturesque detail; in one play a needed road is stalled in red tape, in the other it is a needed schoolhouse; in one, an engaging young native sage holds forth, in the other it is an engaging young native duffer. But the difference between the two plays' titles helps explain their enormous eventual difference in tone. Mister Johnson is really, from...
...bright flame of its exhaust dwindling to a spark and disappearing among the crowding stars. Then, when the rocket was 60 miles up, a new star bloomed in the sky, brighter than the planet Venus. Swiftly it grew, spreading in ten minutes to four times the diameter of the moon, and shedding half the full moon's brilliance. At this stage the glowing spot was three miles across and was giving far more light than could be accounted for by any sort of fuel carried up by the rocket. Slowly it dimmed and dissipated, turning into a hazy streak...
...inclusion in a group cantata, a sweeping experiment at musical education. Last week they had the thrill of performing their work with a professional symphony orchestra. The project began a year ago, when the Cincinnati Symphony played at one of its popular children's concerts a cantata called Moon Rocket, a musical trip to the moon composed by Dorothy Fee, a New Jersey kindergarten music teacher. The young audience was enthralled. One of them, Tom Osher, then a fifth-grader, suggested to his music teacher. Charlotte Perso, that he and his classmates might be able to do a similar...
Both scientists agreed that several problems of interplanetary travel, such as sufficient speed, power and temperature control necessary for reaching even the moon, were beyond the scope of present scientific knowledge...