Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simply Drifting. Ritchard might well have been describing Ritchard. As a highly flexible Superman of the arts, big (6 ft. 2 in., 194 Ibs.), urbane Cyril Ritchard is also the fey earth visitor (and director) of Broadway's hit play A Visit to a Small Planet, a sort of personal gilly for his neat bag of vaudevillian's tricks. This spring, between performances, he made flying trips cross-country to play the leading comedy role in the Metropolitan Opera's Gilbert-and-Sullivanish souffle, La Périchole, which he also staged. "I sound like a sick...
...dust is coming south, covering the earth as uniformly as a bandage wrapped with slow deliberation around an orange. Scientists estimate that it will take about nine months to envelop the Southern Hemisphere from the equator to the pole. Then the earth will be merely another dead planet following its lonely orbit around...
...these invaluable rights. Just yesterday, for example, we observed the Hungarians confirm our faith in the insatiable appetite of all people for freedom-an urge that will brook impossible odds for its satisfaction, proving to the entire world that life without freedom becomes unbearable ... In many parts of this planet men of every color and background are awakening to the immeasurable worth of a free way of life. They are coming to know that through education and enterprise this free way of life can be possible for all. They are revolted by the brutal use of force to repress freedom...
...earth is a minor, insignificant planet in the vast universe, but it is important to its inhabitants, and it is an inconvenient object for them to study. It is too big to be observed from one or a few places. Its surface is covered with rapidly moving fluids. Its atmosphere swirls with big and little storms. Its oceans are stirred by currents. Its solid crust shakes like jelly, and its plastic interior probably flows slowly in largely unknown ways. Influence? from the sun and beyond the sun affect the passive earth. Cosmic rays from the depths of space beat upon...
...will come when enormous masses of data have been digested, when books of charts have been printed, and when hundreds of thousands of scientists have painfully created an "earth model" out of all this information. Then and then only will man have a chance to better understand the small planet on which he lives...