Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pent-up bully is almost unknown at Maple Park, and children disturbed by sickness, divorce of parents, newborn brothers or sisters, or a death in the family, get a break. While facing up to the problem, they can slow down at school, thus heal emotions faster. Scott Warren, now eleven, was once so ill that he missed more than half a year of first-grade fundamentals. In a graded school, says his teacher mother, he might never have caught up. "In the ungraded plan, he missed absolutely nothing, going along very slowly until he was able to step up with...
...With a trained eye and an eager appetite, the First Lady examined them, chose two (but left them behind for the show), went out the door and up Madison Avenue. Word traveled fast, and when the show opened, viewers thronged into the gallery. The artist: Thomas Anshutz, a nearly unknown turn-of-the-century American remembered more as a teacher of painters than as a painter himself...
...errors came during the shooting of a comedy in Mexico around 1920. Miss Gish and Richard Barthelmess were starred, and the part of a domestic was played by a minor actor. The domestic's part was done so well that Miss Gish approached Griffith with the suggestion that the unknown be put on a contract for future films. The director refused: "The fellow can act, but he looks too foreign, too Latin. I couldn't sell him to the American Public." The actor, on the verge of his part in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, was Rudolph Valentino...
...have been written by Philip the Apostle, who is recorded in John as one of the first disciples gathered by Jesus and as an onlooker at the miracle of the loaves and fishes. In stead, following a custom of the early Christian era, it was written by some unknown author who sought to give his own writings the ring of authority by purporting to speak in some measure for the Apostle. Unlike the already translated Gospel of Thomas, from the same Nag Hammadi collection, Philip contains no sayings of Jesus that scholars are tempted to consider genuine. Nonetheless, the author...
...more elaborate craft. They will study the lunar surface so that larger craft, eventually carrying humans, can land there safely. Any astronaut touching down in a spaceship needs to know whether the surface below is hard rock or deep, soft dust, whether it is radioactive or made of wholly unknown moon-stuff that cannot exist on Earth...