Word: raying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio transmitter. It was programmed and equipped to send to Earth a continuous stream of reports on 39 scientific and 90 engineering measurements. Crowded into the spacecraft were a new type of helium gas magnetometer to study magnetic fields, an ionization chamber and Geiger counter to measure galactic cosmic rays, a collector cup to measure the solar wind's barrage of protons, a cosmic-ray telescope and cosmic-dust collector -plus the all-important TV camera. "I don't think you could improve the payload," said one of the project scientists. "It's a damn near perfect...
...modesty of Rudolf Serkin inspires utmost respect and admiration. Said Israeli Cellist Raphael Sommer, who came from Paris just for Marlboro: "It is a great lesson in humility for me to study under such great men as Serkin and Casals. It is an incredible spiritual uplift-like a ray of sunshine from those above us. And to actually play with them-with a man like Serkin! We are free and equal with them. You could not find anything else like this in the world...
Surprisingly he is also accepted as such by the reader. This second novel by Iris Dornfeld (Jeeney Ray), who is the wife of Nation Editor Carey McWilliams and a musician in her own right, has many faults-among them a bifurcated plot structure and an occasionally cluttered style. But it has one peculiar and overriding merit. In the contorted, possessed character of Boy Gravely, Author Dornfeld has created a marvelously perceptive delineation of the terrible disease and destiny that is genius...
...clever for its own good. Based on Ann Jellicoe's giddy, free-spirited play-still bouncing along off-Broadway-The Knack tells of a provincial lass (Rita Tushingham) at large in London who stumbles into a house occupied by three oddball bachelors. One is a potent pipsqueak (Ray Brooks), mysteriously endowed with the knack of "making it" with the opposite sex. One is a pallid, reticent schoolteacher (Michael Crawford), for whom the way of a Mod with a maid remains ever beyond reach. The third (Donal Donnelly) is a simple eccentric who spends his energy painting the walls...
...four melodramatic scenes that takes care of the plot; after that three competent actors take over and its' all downhill. The Count (Robert Lanchester) has tolerated his wife's affairs and she has tolerated his. He has a mistress, whom he finds boring. Lucile (Patricia Archer) brings a ray of simplicity into his life; she's a 20-year-old social worker virgin, and he goes nuts...