Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behind this plot, with its obvious parallels and clear-cut themes, are emotions as subtle and changing as the ocean which Zorba and the Englishman live near. This curious combination of the most obvious and most suggestive is typical of Kazantzakis's writing. In adapting the novel and directing the film, Michael Cacoyannis has captured much of the combination...
Reader, beware. Wouk is writing for grownups, and he has a murky, modern, antiromantic intelligence. The promise of enchantment is fulfilled only in irony. His coral cuts, his sandy beaches are alive with stinging sand flies. His ocean has sharks and floating garbage. His only pirate is a boozy, busted corporate raider named Lester Atlas, who staggers into every scene with a yo-ho-ho and a rum and tonic. His hero is a middle-aged (49) New York Jew with a heart condition. The result is not romance but farce laced with tears...
...determined to avoid any such situation. Protesting a little too much, an editorial in People's Daily last week asked: "What is naval and air superiority after all? Even if twelve American aircraft carriers are deployed in this area, it would only mean twelve more airports on the ocean. What can they do, since the outcome of the war in Viet Nam must be decided on the ground...
...succeed, they accomplished only part of their mission. The failure of some small part kept them below the level of total perfection that is the absolute imperative of space. But nothing at all went wrong with last week's Saturn, which left its pad as routinely as an ocean liner leaving its pier...
...telescopes sweep the skies from a site that Astronomer Gerard Kuiper terms "the finest in the world-I repeat, in the world." Five space-tracking stations in the islands now spot missiles and satellites. A hundred miles northeast of the island of Maui, a place where the ocean is three miles deep has been chosen for the $71 million Project Mohole-an attempt to drill three miles through the earth's crust to the underlying mantle. A recent business-sponsored survey projected a possible annual income of $100 million for state firms from oceanic re search...