Word: outerness
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Goodyear Television Playhouse presented the satire: young (29) Novelist Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet. The small planet is the earth. The visit is made on an impulse by a cultivated space traveler named Kreton. He taxies his flying saucer from a distant galaxy somewhere in outer space right onto the rose-bed of an American family...
Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics, recently told a Canadian research group that whenever he spots a "flying saucer" he knows just what it is and it has never resembled an invasion from outer space...
...momentary change of tactics, regardless of any treaty the Kremlin may sign, is bent on conquering the entire world-the United States not excluded-and remolding it in the form of the totalitarian dictatorship and slave economy imposed on the people behind the Iron Curtain in Russia, Rumania, Outer Mongolia and on the Chinese mainland...
...this cylindrical temple, another esoteric form presides, resembling a rocket-ship, headed heavenward. This vessel for outer space might be very effectively employed in not wafting gently, but forcefully propelling recalcitrant MIT students into the Empyrean...
...America's special task-"of truly overwhelming proportions"-to find its own synthesis between faith in progress and awareness of its limitations; to learn "how to inquire into the nature and destiny of man in a new way ..." The new way will lie not in "adjustment" to the outer world, but in the realm of man's inner world, which links him mysteriously and universally to his fellow men. Yet, in turn, this vision of spiritual (rather than merely social) brotherhood did not lead Davenport toward mysticism. Right reason is still man's supreme weapon: "The Thomist...