Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stars. On some of those planets, says Von Hoerner, there may well be creatures intelligent enough to transmit radio messages across the enormous distances of interstellar space. But for all this skill, he says, such highly developed civilizations will rarely be able to communicate with each other. Intelligent societies span but a brief segment of galactic history; they take billions of years to evolve, and their flowering might well last only a few thousand years. So their brief moments of glory would seldom coincide...
Contrarily refusing to accept this, O'Hara over the years wrote a succession of long, turgid novels that required two hands to hold, said not much, and invariably buckled of their own weight, since sight, sound and mood cannot sustain a span of 900 pages. Lately, however, he has begun writing short fiction again. Last year's trilogy of novellas, Sermons and Soda-Water, was a highly successful return to the style of his early work. Some of the stories in the present collection are even better...
...traditional job of homemaking takes up a portion but nowhere near the entire span of a woman's life today," she said. "One approach to this problem is to build up the role of the homemaker, to declare that 'Nothing is more important than motherhood...
...warmly recommend Apollonian Poems to you. They span the growth of a gifted, highly intelligent poet who may not always strike you as successful, but will almost never fail to arouse your interest and please you with his technical competence...
...hard fact is that he is usually the first to feel the pain of recession and one of the last to enjoy the pleasure of recovery. In the first nine months of 1961, there were 13,000 business failures in the U.S., v. 11,500 in the same span a year ago -and virtually all of these failures occurred among the nation's 4,500,000 enterprises with capital assets of less than $100,000. Though there has been some recent improvement, small-business failures struck a 29-year high in August, and have been running consistently higher than...