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...ordinary sense. As man's instruments improve, he can catch more and more of these runaways, and this will widen the horizon of his observable universe just as the earthly horizon is widened by climbing to a hilltop. But it is not correct, says Gold, to assume that unseen and unseeable galaxies extend into space forever beyond the cosmic horizon. For the purposes of cosmological theory, a galaxy beyond the horizon is over the edge of reality...
...youth sitting with bound wrists on one knee and violently downthrust head on the other. He gives an impression of immense vitality borne down by even greater, unseen weight...
Cuevas' show was a sellout at $20 to $50 a sketch. One Manhattan dealer sold several, sight unseen, by long-distance telephone. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art took one look at the show's catalogue and reserved two of the most impressive asylum studies...
...inflaming the area to its highest pitch since 1948. When he landed, the embittered Arab press greeted Johnston (who heads Hollywood's Motion Picture Association) by calling him the Zionist servant of a Jewish-controlled industry; the eight-nation Arab League rejected his scheme, sight unseen. Jordan said it would rather suffer economic disaster than cooperate "directly or indirectly" with the Israelis. Iraq sent word to Johnston not to bother to come (but later shamefacedly invited him). Only the Israelis were polite to President Eisenhower's emissary. They did not much like his scheme either (since it would...
...rising mistrust of each other, the roaring bitterness, the ranging of Americans against Americans, the scapegoat hunts, the assault on freedom of opinion, the intolerance of opposition, the increase in calumny, demagoguery, bigotry and smear? I am afraid it is because fear and frustration abound: fear of the unseen death-laden struggle in which we are locked, and frustration at our inability to get directly...