Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Normally, the automatic control system is supposed to tilt the capsule into the proper position for firing the retro-rockets-the blunt heat shield end of the capsule pointing 34° above the horizon. But Carpenter felt that the automatic system was working badly; he decided to fly the capsule into the correct position by a combination of the manual and fly-by-wire controls...
...hero and Rhodes scholar (see box). To help make up for his lack of judicial experience. White will bring to the court a high and well-honed intelligence. With a New Frontier Democrat replacing a conservative Republican, it was widely felt that the uneasy balance in the court would tilt decisively toward the liberal bloc-but that was an overly simple interpretation. White is a New Frontier pragmatist. As a former Deputy Attorney General, he will probably tend to side with the Frankfurter bloc in internal security cases, just as Whittaker did. And where White does join with the liberal...
...penance, who dimly but fearfully perceives the end of her innocence. The picture has charm and-in the dark room, the vacuous expression-a touch of horror. Without luck's greatest blessings, the photographer who wanted to duplicate the painting would wait (for the clear light, for the tilt of the head) longer than it took the artist to learn to paint. And if the explicit drawing had been lost in abstractionist broad-brushing, its power would have been lost...
Author Kesey, 26, who worked as a nursing assistant in the mental wards of two California hospitals while he was writing his novel, has used his empathy with the Insider's view of the Outsider's world to tilt the reader's comfortable assumption about the nice normalities, has made his book a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them. But Kesey's lunatics and his story are full of gaiety too-including a wild ward party complete with wine, women and song. As the Chief says...
...Mother, and Father too, are being cut down by the terrors of old age: "Surfaces that were once level tilt." Life has become a cantilevered terrace that has taken a crazy tilt. A letter read by Father evokes a vision of the children when they were tots frolicking fondly with their parents, and as Mother sings a Christmas lullaby the first-act curtain descends on a twilight reverie of bygone tenderness...