Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Constellation managed to crash-land, killing four. In the other accident, the pilot of an Eastern DC-7B approaching JFK maneuvered so violently in order to avoid a Pan American jet that was actually 1,000 feet above him that he lost control and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 84 aboard. All four planes were under FAA surveillance, but the pilots chose to believe their eyes, rather than their instruments...
...commands radioed from the ground, changing its attitude as it soared through space over the Pacific. Then, as it followed its trajectory back into the atmosphere, the craft moved its control flaps, turned, and detoured 500 miles before returning to its original course and splashing down in the ocean near Kwajalein Island. Though the SV-5D sank, and was lost when heavy seas ripped away its flotation gear, its otherwise successful flight brought closer the day when man can first steer it through space...
What mind can compass, what tongue relate the baroque doings which surround a Hasty Pudding opening--that manic cross between a mid-ocean gala and a run on the bank? The searchlights, the celebrities, the spilled drinks, the crowd's frenzied yelps of mutual recognition: the scene suggests unwitting passage into a claustrophobe's vision of the Apocalypse...
Resents my struggle with a swelling ocean...
...plot, or what there is of it, concerns a malingering suicide. In Act I, he botches the job with a rope thick enough to tie up an ocean liner. In Act II, he simmers down to melancholy and despair, possibly induced by the "death of God" he keeps talking about, or by revisiting the Central European town from which he had fled as a refugee, or by both. In Act III, he finally hangs himself on a meat hook in the back kitchen of his London delicatessen. The prevailing lack of cheer is not noticeably alleviated by the play...