Word: outerness
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...generation (Are we a generation until we've done something?) is, in this order, silent, apathetic, decadent and delinquent. Then: "Withdrawal is not, for us, a retrogression into apathy; rather it rises from a realization that the secular Utopia is a mirage and that in the complexity of the outer world lies little meaning for the individual...
...opening Macy's camp center this year? Captain Video himself." Exulted a Macy publicity man: "He has a fantastic pull with the kids. He can pack 2,000 in 400 square feet!" Nobody seems to care that Captain Video is no longer battling extraterrestrial badmen in outer galaxies. For though the show is dead, the character lives on, like a stubborn ghost, to haunt Actor Al Hodge, who portrayed the gallant captain for five years on the nation's TV screens. "I've made more personal appearances as Captain Video since I've been...
...Lewis' remarks in "Faith & Outer Space" prompt me to wonder if the serpent in the Old Testament might not have been a visitor from outer space...
Shadow Cabinet. Sitting in an outer wing of the presidential palace watching these goings-on is young Vice President, Diosdado Macapagal, a Magsaysay follower who, running on the Liberal ticket, got more votes for Veep than did Nacionalista Garcia for President. Since Macapagal refused to change his party after the election, Garcia barred him from any Cabinet post. Completely isolated ("I only learn what's going on from reading the newspapers"), Macapagal has been subjected to every kind of palace snub. If his air conditioner breaks down, maintenance men take weeks to fix it. When official limousines were handed...
...continuous spectrum of signals on earth. Menzel's chart of this spectrum is based on observations by astronomers throughout the world and provides the first complete guide to these noises. It should give valuable aid to operator of radio, television and radar, whose equipment is often disturbed by these outer-atmosphere signal sources...