Word: outerness
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Heavens Above! Peter Sellers again, this time as a vicar who becomes the first Bishop of Outer Space. Sellers seems to be still all right, but, Jack, something has gone wrong with his vehicles...
...this week's Sport section, Pitcher Warren Spahn, a man of superb control, tries to describe how he throws to the outer edge of the plate, and says, "I couldn't throw one down the pipe if I tried.'' The enlivening speech of natural conversationalists, the alphabetical shorthand of bureaucrats, the foreign words that sometimes say it better, the new names and phrases that describe the latest art fad or music craze, all find their way into our pages. A sampler from this week's issue...
...hours in space, his program called for him to try to sleep. Advised Communicator Glenn: "I'm going to tell them [all other communicators] to go away and leave you alone now." Cooper pulled a curtain across his capsule window, allowed his craft to speed untended through outer space. In the silence of such flight, the weightless astronaut has no sensation of movement even when falling upside down. Drowsy and drifting. Cooper fell easily asleep...
...different as England and Sweden: both have problems all right, but Sellers' troubles are worldly ones. Or are they? In the last scene Sellers is nowhere to be seen, but his quavering voice is heard singing a hymn as he orbits the earth, the first Bishop of Outer Space...
...trying to raft his belongings across a flooded river. The problem, clearly, is to get the essential items safely over. The temptation is to pile everything on. Paul Brodeur's story nearly founders under its symbolic freight. But the voyage into a world where inner disorder and outer chaos mirror each other makes an absorbing trip...