Word: sound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ursina Ziegler, translated from the German by Barbara Kowal Gollob, illustrated by Sita Jucker (Atheneum; $4.95). Apollo 11 literary fallout about an astronaut who returns from the moon with a funny little creature clinging to his space suit. His children make it their playmate and call it Squaps (the sound that answers all questions on the moon). Squaps enjoys the earth, especially his discovery of water -from shower baths, sprinklers and watering cans. And then comes the next full moon...
...Sides. Shakespeare is attempting to correct what he says has been for too long a liberal tilt to the agency's efforts. "I am determined," he says, "that our USIA overseas libraries will be ideologically balanced on the liberal and conservative sides. I will say something that may sound dangerous-the majority of books written tend to be written by people on the liberal side because they are more articulate. People like Schlesinger and Galbraith. But our libraries must express-clearly and openly-both sides." Finding writers on the other side, however, is not always easy. Recently Shakespeare fretted...
Dining halls would be more attractive to Associates if there were better sound-proofing, tablecloths at certain meals, and general improvements in physical facilities, the report adds...
...Terrell relies on a sound, aggressive ground stroke," Barnaby said "He has developed a lot of game strategy and recently he has been concentrating on adding a front wall finesse to his attack." The result is that Terrell is presently ranked as the third best amateur player in the nation...
...Robert Johnson and Willie Dixon. it does not make its debts its originality. While Led Zeppelin is not so resonantly lyrical as the Beatles. or self-consciously evangelical as Jefferson Airplane. or menacing and cleverly crude as the Rolling Stones. it nevertheless produces a more puissant and unmannered sound than any of these more famous groups. Led Zeppelin like the very few excellent groups. plays with neither tediousness nor superfluity. The essence of the group is superior playing of a propulsive character controlled- by imagination and a firm sense of structure- from degenerating into an assault of unending tours...