Word: mortall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mantle 600 miles overhead, which overwhelmed the sensory devices of earlier satellites. Explorer IV's extra beef-it is seven pounds heavier than Explorer III-went into instruments custom-built to examine this ionized belt, which may reach all the way to the sun and could well thwart mortal designs on outer space. Within minutes of launch, Explorer IV was wheeling with the other moons, 170 miles up at the lowest, 1,400 miles up at the highest, sending back vital intelligence on this cosmic barrier...
...Psychology is still the Cinderella of depth psychology's Big Three. To Freudians, Adler's views are superficial and inadequate; to more mystical Jungians, they seem earth-bound and unimaginative. But in a new, revised edition of Alfred Adler (Vanguard; $5), British Novelist Phyllis (Private Worlds, The Mortal Storm) Bottome, biographer and longtime friend of Adler, sets out the principles of Individual Psychology so clearly and completely as to suggest that the Adlerian boat is not only still afloat but still carrying riches in its neglected cargo. Adler's theories are perhaps most fascinating for the light...
...Trinity, Dangerfield is a spiv student of law who cheats at his exams, cheats on his wife Marion (whom he calls "a scheming slut"), cheats a succession of easy conquests, from barmaids to old maids. When one of them laments "It's adultery," Dangerfield comforts her: "One mortal sin is the same as another." He is the pest of the Coombe, Dublin's slum area, among whose tolerant denizens it is very hard indeed to become a pest...
Though the U.S. was willing to support his stalling strategy, it was the British who balked even at discussing the grim bargain between Brand and his mortal enemies, and tried to hamstring his efforts to reach others. One appalling reason given by Brand: the British did not know where to put the Jews without increasing their quota for admission to Palestine. They also acted on the principle that blackmail is never paid off, that simply nothing can be gained by negotiating with monsters. First the war must be won, argued the British; then others must sweep up the bits...
...sucker for other people's promises and a happily shameless manipulator of his own. His gravel-voiced oratory beats at the unwary with the brass of a top sergeant and the blarney of a sideshow barker. To doubt his most outrageous argument is to deal him a mortal affront. But doubters there are. For Walter is a complicated soul. When there are two ways to do a thing, he chooses the oblique. Part leprechaun and part literal-minded lawyer, he disconcerts friends with a Groucho Marxist air of insincerity. Yet he walks among foes with the grave and wary...