Word: sirius
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SIRIUS MYSTERY...
...Space-Gods Revealed by Ronald Story is a coherent and much-needed refutation of Von Däniken's theories. Robert K.G. Temple's The Sirius Mystery argues with some sophistication the likelihood that superior beings from Sirius visited earth between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago. Both books are squarely in a modern fiction-science mode that had its recent renaissance during the early '50s when the country was overtaken by mass UFOria...
Rocket Ships. Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery is a bit harder to dispose of. Temple is a 30-year-old American who holds a B. A. in Oriental studies and Sanskrit from the University of Pennsylvania and is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in England, where he now lives...
...there was the vague feeling back in Washington, even in the White House, that none of this would cure the new malaise very much. At the Vail branch of the White House, Ron Nessen, the President's press secretary, attributed the problem to dog days, and indeed, Sirius the Dog Star, which governs this temperamental season in mythology, seemed to have an unusual hold on the affairs of state...
Scattered Details. She takes trips with Charles, serving as navigator and radio operator, and then, leaving behind her new son Jon, embarks on a five-month flight in a pontooned Lockheed Sirius to explore air routes over the Atlantic. Scattered among the details of such travel are passages of sharp perception. Commenting on a dinner with Harold Nicolson and his wife V. Sackville-West, Anne writes: "What is there about the English? You seem to be talking openly with perfect naturalness when-snap-the blind goes up (or down, actually) ... and you're left staring at the shutters...