Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine lives up to its name in its main feature, "Our Mighty Old Cosmos," a parody of Life's recent unlocking of the secrets of creation. Though not particularly subtle, John Updike's lampoon hits Life in its soft underbelly of complacency, and at its breathless wonder at the scope of its own accomplishments. The text of the parody, while not particularly applicable to the article in question, is a clever-enough adaptation of Time-style: "Earth then (156 billion B.C.) was barren, cold, lonely, dull." On the whole the satire is a clever idea, competently done...
...view of the air around the airport. Instead it shoots out only a single narrow beam of radar pulses. Guided by a direction finder, the operator swings the beam with a pair of "handle bars" until it picks up an approaching plane. A "blip" on the radar's scope tells him that he has found it. Then, keeping the plane in the scope, he "talks" it down just as operators do with more complicated radars...
...sardonic and powerful Japanese movie. Rashomon. Filmed with stylized elegance and thrumming with barbaric force, Rashomon nonetheless softened Akutagawa's savage original, In a Grove, with a benign ending. Readers with hardy digestions can now compare the two and sample five other Akutagawa short stories of lesser scope, all of which combine a bitter misanthropy with a craft that is as spare and durable as bamboo...
...both Catholics. Concludes Kerr, after recalling a maxim quoted by French Catholic Paul Claudel ("God writes straight with crooked lines"): "Art without crooked lines is unnatural art-inevitably inferior art. And in its production not only the creative mind is betrayed; the Catholic mind, in its fullness, in its scope, in its centricity, is betrayed as well . . . We are moving closer and closer to the sort of stand which might well be described as 'vulgarity for God's sake...
...term egghead was, if I gather rightly, originally intended to be a bit derogatory, indicating a capacity for and a preoccupation with mental activity of a particular kind, limited in its scope, and by no means resulting in an orderly process of thought capable of producing wise decision, nor of envisaging constructive and adequate planning for this nation's life, liberty and happiness. Alger Hiss is an egghead, Whittaker Chambers is an egghead, with a latent streak of common sense. There are all kinds of eggheads-neurotic, paranoiac, schizophrenic. There are also harmless and normal eggheads, including...