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...which he says a comet would be ejected from Jupiter could later serve as a possible source of Velikovsky's hypothetical, captured-comet-turned-planet Venus's heat. Sagan reasonably argues, however, that rather than staying in a molten mass the ejected material "would have been entirely reduced toa train of self-gravitating small dust particles and atoms, which does not describe the planet Venus particularly well...
...feet hurt. Already the crowds fill the street, lining up along sidewalks behind police lines, waiting to watch. "Madness, confusion, police clearing streets," I write in my little notebook. A young boy, 13 or 14, is defending the women passionately toa group of angry men, all shouting at him. He grins at me when I stop to watch. "Gee, and this morning I didn't even believe in Women's Liberation...
...radio-TV patents, 3) license all new patents during 'the next ten years at a "reasonable" royalty rate. The Justice Department also won a criminal case against RCA. U.S. District Court Judge John F. X. McGohey in Manhattan fined RCA $100,000 when the company pleaded nolo contendere toa four-count criminal indictment on monopoly charges...
Save Your Fury. Mahler's widow, now in her sixties, was a 20-year-old counterpoint student when she married the slight, 41-year-old opera conductor. His ferociousness in the orchestra pit was already a legend. By abolishing the claque and ordering latecomers toa special box, Mahler had angered performers and audiences alike. Once the musicians stubbornly refused to rehearse another note, and Mahler barked: "Gentlemen, keep your fury for the performance. Then at last we shall have [it] played as it should...
...million dollars (for someone) and made a million people weep by employing the obvious emotional devices of religion in a commercial play. He has used the correspondingly obvious emotional devices of war in The Enemy and will probably reap vast rewards. To one practiced in the Theatre or toa layman fastidious in the matter of emotional stimuli, it will sound like the cry of wolf, wolf. And, curiously enough, Mr. Pollock is said to believe that he is a great evangelist of human faith and progress. Probably such a belief is necessary to such a play. Without faith one cannot...