Word: urania
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ocean, half a continent-and an ideological infinity. One dark, rainswept night last week, two ex-G.I.s of the Korean war completed the long journey between those points. For Arlie Howard Pate, 25, the trip ended near Carbondale, Ill.; for Aaron P. Wilson, 24, it was over at Urania...
...Maurice Maeterlinck's dewy drama of innocent love and death made luminous by Debussy's timeless score. The performance is excellent, and the recording has a presence that lends impact to the vaporous score. Prokofiev: Semyon Kotko Suite (Radio Berlin Symphony conducted by Rolf Kleinert; Urania). Eight orchestral selections from the 1939 Prokofiev opera. The plot deals with the 1918 Ukranian uprising against the Germans, but it would be hard to guess it from the suite; despite moments of real strength, its character is mostly sweetness and light. Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortileges (soloists, chorus...
...H.M.S. Urania, a 1,710-ton World War II destroyer, lay at a Liverpool dock, undergoing conversion that would turn her into a fast, light, submarine-killing frigate. Her steel superstructures were being replaced with aluminum and she was being equipped with Britain's new, secret "Limbo" sub-finder, a sort of electronic bulldog that locates and "locks on" to a submarine until it can be destroyed. One afternoon, when the last work shift left the Urania, the security patrol combed her and found nothing amiss. She was floodlit, and two guards stayed, as usual...
Former Corporal Aaron Wilson of Urania, La. was asked if he believed the U.N. forces had used germ warfare. "Yes," answered Wilson. "Why?" asked a reporter. "I saw the insects," said the soldier. "But how did you know they were germ-warfare insects?" persisted the newsman. As Wilson hesitated in confusion, one of his cronies jumped to his rescue: "He saw all about it in the newsreels." Wilson threw him a look of gratitude...
...practical sense in such things. He felt that it was useless to talk to a prostitute of her duty to society. "Society," he wrote, "has used her ill ... and she cannot be expected to take much heed of its rights or wrongs." He thought, instead, that the charges of Urania Cottage should be "tempted to virtue" by kindness and by the chance to learn an occupation and good habits, to hear pleasant music and read not only elevating but even enjoyable books, to putter in gardens, and, finally, by the chance to sail, passage-paid by Miss Coutts, to Australia...