Word: outerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waiting for Noah. The surcharge on their exports was a jolting setback for the Commonwealth nations and Britain's trading partners in E.F.T.A., Europe's Outer Seven: yet the Prime Minister made no attempt to soften the blow by consulting them in advance...
...Genet as an author of power and glittering malice, as he appears provocatively in The Balcony and shatteringly in The Blacks, sees him here as a lesser and more engaging writer-a strangely amiable, seedy, not-to-be-trusted guide for a morning's excursion through the cooler outer regions of hell...
...have seen this report. It is a confused, biased account, put together by a group of sincere believers in the reality of flying saucers from outer space. This group, the National Investigative Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), has tried for years, unsuccessfully, to get Congress to investigate the U.S. Air Force. The object of the hearings would be to have the Air Force publicly admit what they supposedly have known all along, that these "weird machines" really exist and that the military has suppressed this information because the public is not prepared for so staggering a revelation...
...following pages). Her presence borrowed color from the walls of her bath. While fauvism, cubism, even dadaism and surrealism bypassed Bonnard, he kept his eye on nature and his wife's place in it. To many, through the 1930s and 1940s, Bonnard was oldfashioned, a man preoccupied with outer nature rather than inner psychology. His art seemed wishy-washy, facile, banal in its apparent sentimentality...
This is the story of The Veldt, a new short play by Ray Bradbury which, with two other Bradbury one-acters, has just opened in Los Angeles. As the world's best science fiction writer, author of The Martian Chronicles and Hollywood's It Came From Outer Space, Bradbury has come to think that the world has actually entered the machine-dominated sci-fi era and that the human soul is already deep in an electronic coma. Hence his plays, though they are set in the future, are actually hyperbolic allegories of the present...