Word: sky
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puzzling case, young Sigi. He was one of those comets in the musical sky that turn out to be meteors, burning out and falling below the horizon. Born in Sofia, he studied under Bulgaria's foremost composer, Pantcho Vladigerov, and made his way to Manhattan's Juilliard School by way of Turkey and Israel. In 1948 he won the prestigious Leventritt award. His career was launched in a blaze of critical superlatives. But over the years, instead of flourishing on the concert circuit, he faded. In 1957 he disappeared from...
Peering into the night skies, astronomers find their view obscured by the ever-present veil of the earth's atmosphere. Swirling air currents blur the images of stars and planets. Scattered light and auroras in the atmosphere blot out faint stars. The thick blanket of air soaks up ultraviolet light and other radiation given off by distant stars, thus depriving scientists of valuable clues about the nature of the universe around them. Last week U.S. astronomers dramatically thrust their telescopes through the atmospheric veil and began to see the sky in a new light...
Save where a pine at the sky's rim Took something from the bear...
...Hellenic, Byzantine or Oriental styles. The Gaston miniaturist was keenly observant of nature, as his grazing mountain goats testify. When it came to portraying the rugged Pyrenees, however, he resorted to stylized mountains that turn up frequently in Byzantine, Italian and French illuminations. In place of the sky, he painted a decorative pattern common in Middle East miniatures. Though he had not yet learned how to model his figures to give them a more lifelike dimension, he made his flat, jewel-toned colors seem even more precious by the delicate linear tracery of the foliage and touches of gold leaf...
...toward a shining and beckoning target: the moon. Before December ends, if all goes well, he will circle the moon and look down from his spaceship at lunar craters and "seas" as little as 70 miles below. Staring up, he will see the dominant feature of the black lunar sky -the blue-green, partly illuminated globe that is his home: the earth...