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...Science has been as much an occasion for acrimony and gloom as for surveys of scientific progress. The proceedings have been repeatedly-and often mindlessly-disrupted by young radicals. They have also been marked by one pessimistic report after another on man's despoliation of his home planet. Last week in Washington, D.C., at the A.A.A.S.'S 139th meeting, scientists were again subjected to dissent and despair, but this time there was also welcome relief in the form of an eloquent defense of prudent technological growth...
FRIDAY: Twilight Zone. Agnes Moorehead is the lone and wordless star of one of the best Twilight Zone's ever. She plays an old farm woman doing lonely battle with invaders from another planet. Rod Serting script...
...hopes that Martian-born humans will benefit from our lessons on earth and take better care of their planet...
...missions were man's first raw personal confrontation with the universe beyond this planet, and because of that they were awesome. The awe wore off as the television cameras covered each methodical moment of successive flights, but the best of the images grew into a frieze of transcendence, chiseled on the edges of the mind like Wordsworth's intimations of immortality: the readings from Genesis as Apollo 8 spun toward its rendezvous with the dark side of the moon; the "giant leap for mankind" as Neil Armstrong set his booted foot into the moon dust; the vision...
...sense, argues Thompson, the astronauts underwent a kind of temporal redemption, much like the one envisioned 34 years ago in C.S. Lewis' theological space fantasy Out of the Silent Planet. In Lewis' novel, the earth is the devil's territory and the prison of fallen man, quarantined by the powers and dominations of the divine milieu around it. But those who escape the silent planet can recover their cosmic orientation...