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...tests caused a flurry among European scientists. A widely circulated press report predicted that the explosions in space would cause auroras visible over much of the earth and might even erase the inner ring of the Van Allen radiation belt (TIME, May 4, 1959). U.S. experts called the story overblown, but British Radio Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell of Jodrell Bank observatory protested with characteristic vigor: "All scientists who are searching for basic understanding of the solar system will be filled with dismay at the American proposal...
...writing was revamped in the North by men who had fought in the war. The battle memoirs of Sherman and Grant, "perfect in concision and clear ness," changed the "clogged and viscous prose" of the prewar days. In the heat of the war these commanders had no time for overblown eloquence. "Their role is to convince and direct," writes Wilson...
Sidney Goldfarb, who has published before in the Crimson Review and Pharaetra, contributes three poems which I like very much. They show a good grasp of tone and an ability to restore impact to everyday phrases and imagery. Goldfarb avoids the purple passage, the overblown metaphor, and the "poetic" sentiment so common in the verse of young poets. instead, he turns out stanzas like these two from Mrs. Willy Cavanaugh, I Remember...
...every six was an F. Though the school magnanimously allowed flunkers to repeat courses-and hence got charged with junking its intellectual aims-nearly 400 of the original freshman class of 570 have dropped out. The few hard-working survivors on the vast campus endured everything from overblown rumors of faculty dissension to the news that the money-strapped Michigan state legislature had cut Oakland's budget to the bone...
...making movies with black-market film. In 1953 he and Co-Producer Carlo Ponti (who achieved added fame by marrying Sophia Loren) broke into the U.S. market with a stinker called Ulysses. Dino got his first Oscar for La Strada, and went on to make a lot of overblown bad movies and several good movies, such as Nights of Cabiria, for which he got another Oscar. In a non-Shakespearean epic called The Tempest, he transformed eleven words of Pushkin ("The rebels rushed up to us and ran into the fortress") into a $600,000 cavalry charge. He made...