Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approached, the beeps wavered slightly. Then they stopped. In Moscow the radio stopped its program for an announcement. After an unexplained delay (perhaps for rechecking), the radio played a few bars of the International and the announcer said: "At 00:02:24 Moscow time [5:02:24 E.D.T.] the second Soviet cosmic rocket reached the surface of the moon...
This spring he built a second greenhouse to indulge his wife's horticultural hobby. He is content to live out his life in the nonbohemian tranquillity of his Hertfordshire home, with only an array inside of small Henry Moore statues and Irina Moore's fine collection of primitive sculpture to show that it is the place of an unconventional family. He also has the satisfaction of knowing that his own breakthrough has opened the way to public acceptance for a whole generation of radical young British sculptors, topped by such bright new talents as Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler...
After the Fact. Having made his defense, Moore confesses that the finished piece under discussion displeases him. "It is simply too anecdotal, too sentimental," he says, and moves in the studio to a nearby figure, a more distorted yet far more powerful version of the same theme (see second color page, lower right). A woman almost bursting with the life of a new child? An earth bursting with spring? A moment swollen with the pain and hope of living? Were these what he was trying to convey in the figure...
...lipped movie-house owner and the third of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four Catholic national chairmen (1943-44), who began his political career by donating $10,000 to F.D.R.'s 1928 gubernatorial campaign, as a watchful Postmaster General (1940-45) tried to revoke Esquire Magazine's second-class mailing privileges because of its spicy contents; in Manhattan...
Hall-Jay Street stop in Brooklyn; cross the platform to take the A express train, get off at the second stop, Lafayette-the front of the train lets you off nearest Cumberland Street; Miss Moore lives on Cumberland, No. 260, which is between Lafayette and De Kalb; it is a six-story, yellow brick building; she lives in Apartment 18 on the fifth floor...