Word: outer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second story, vaguely science-fiction, centers around Valentine Brodie, a college professor and dabbling sci-fi writer. In a twist of morbid irony, he finds himself amides scenarios all too typical of, the genre he never took quite seriously: Lynx, a wandering planet from outer space, is going to smash the earth, ending civilization as we know it. But a plan to salvage humanity, by sending the cream of the race into space to begin a new, brings the story back to Burgess' theme--the question of just what is worthwhile about humanity and the culture we have created. According...
...able to mount movable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of night and day and even the terrestrial seasons. If he wished such special effects, he could probably conjure up an occasional blizzard inside the space colony. But he doubtless will follow the longstanding American habit of thinking that outer space should, as much as possible, resemble Southern California. If he does install seasons in the colony, they will be only for the benefit of the vegetables...
...Government on a course of creative and conciliatory diplomacy. To show his good faith he announced the end of this nation's nuclear tests in the atmosphere. From the words and thoughts of that speech flowed the test ban treaty, a prohibition on nuclear weapons in outer space, the first grain sale to the Soviets, and the first nuclear arms limitation agreement. The latter, ironically, occurred during the term of his old rival Richard Nixon...
Arguably the worst of the bunch was David D. Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space," in which stagehands tossed paper plates to serve as spaceships and used styrofoam balls as planets...
...wants or needs-whether it be the de-mothballing of a battleship or subsidies to tobacco growers-the fact remains that taxes do pay for schools and libraries, hospitals and highways, police and prisons, and research into outer space. "Taxes," said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., "are what we pay for civilized society...