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...catholic a taste in carryings-on suggests the author's father, Evelyn Waugh. Inevitably Daughter Harriet, a sometime editor and technician in the London planetarium who has now written a first novel at 31, suffers in comparison, not only with Father but with precocious Brother Auberon, 35, who turned out The Foxglove Saga 15 years ago. Evelyn satirized his peers and times by following sane characters through a giddy world. Harriet uses the much less engaging converse: crazy people, sane society. The father's unremittingly inhospitable view of humanity lent his books bite and pace. The daughter...
...talking about putting a couple of hundred thousand dollars into the arts, theaters and museums. You can't do that when times are hard." The city is building a new zoo, an agriculture coliseum, a $3.5 million art museum, a $2 million Indian culture center and a planetarium...
Comet Flight. Excitement about the comet is not confined to scientists. Planetariums round the world are drawing overflow crowds for Kohoutek shows. Telescopes and binoculars are being sold at an exceptionally brisk pace; Edmund Scientific Co., of Barrington, N.J., reports a 200% gain this year in its sale of telescopes; Los Angeles' Marschutz Optical Co. is completely sold out. This week the Queen Elizabeth 2 sailed from New York, booked to the gunwales with 1,693 passengers on a three-day comet cruise. Before dawn every morning, passengers were invited to the decks for telescope viewing and comet lectures...
...what's available. There's a sense of lassitude and emptiness about it all. And there's a clarity about it, which doesn't last very long, when I think, oh God, it isn't worth it. It's almost like seeing life from a photograph in the planetarium, where the earth is a small thing in all that space...
...their daily living, acted as though the eclipse did not matter at all. Out of 14 Chicagoans quizzed before the event, five asked "What is it?", eight wondered "When is it?" and one looked up at the cloudy sky to demand "Where is it?" At Chicago's Adler Planetarium, the most frequent inquiry was a fretful "Is it safe to go outside...