Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Dodd put in just a few short words the real feeling of the American people, and also he has in a way shown us how to accept Khrushchev's arrival. The one thing the American people should avoid is mass cheers and greetings...
...long nap, then worked until 5:30, downed a Scotch highball before dinner, often returned to his work at night. Usually in bed by 10:30, he often relaxed-as he had during the days of World War II decisions-with western novels, preferably those of Red Reeder, Luke Short and Max Brand, to "shut off the mind and stop the thinking process...
...Journey is short on the supports of religion and the structure of philosophy, it is an often fascinating excursion into the literary riches of a sensuous and cultivated mind. Sitwell begins his journey at the point where he dies. Traveling with other newly dead, part way by plane, part way on a craft called the Ship of Fools, he makes a voyage calculated to charm those who share a measure of Sitwell's vast reading, just as it will surely bore those who want to get on with the business of man's soul...
...moon-based songwriter would have his troubles; an obvious rhyme for earth is girth, and in the radiance of earthlight, a moon-maiden's face would shine bluish green. But if science fiction is somewhat short on romance, it does offer today's readers the kind of adventurous, he-man escape from gravity once found in turn-of-the-century western yarns-a commodity not to be dismissed in this day of beatniks and Angry Young...
...Stellarum. Author Clarke has all the qualifications to keep the 18 short stories and two short novels in this omnibus in far-out orbit. He took first-class honors in physics at London University, headed the British Interplanetary Society, now, at 41, turns out space gas between star-watching and undersea-photography expeditions to the far ends of the earth. He sounds thoroughly convincing when he writes, at a moment of high dramatic intensity (a star is blowing up): "Those last exposures did it! ... They show the gaseous shell expanding round the nova. And the speed agrees with your Doppler...