Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw, is substandard G.B.S., full of mildewed seventyish garrulities on religion, militarism and the idle rich. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-rushes about filling the dramatic vacuum...
...support many of the Administration's progressive welfare measures could use very well in Congress," to quote our article. To carry it further, radicalism has not sought to promote good domestic legislation on a national, state, or local level except in the area of civil rights. Here is a vacuum that needs to be filled...
Ranging far out into the solar system, unmanned spacecraft will feel at home in vacuum, be unbothered by radiation, take advantage of weightlessness, get their energy from sunlight as green plants do on Earth. They will perform elaborate maneuvers in response to orders built into their brains, like the instincts of insects, which lead thoroughly successful lives without a trace of reason. Sometimes they will listen with sensitive radio ears for whispers of command from millions or hundreds of millions of miles away. Some of them will send tough-skinned projectiles down into hostile atmosphere and record what they report...
...clever mechanical beasts that can live and function for months in a hostile environment beyond Earth's atmosphere. They must obey commands from millions of miles away, a requirement that calls for radio techniques of incredible delicacy. Giant computers, only recently developed, must plot celestial courses, and enormous vacuum chambers are needed to test behavior in simulated space. These strange space creatures are almost a new type of life, comparable in zoological terms to the first venturesome animals that crawled out of sea water and learned to live in air and sunlight. To breed them calls for the talents...
Goguel sees "renovation of the political parties" as the basic problem facing France. Yet the sclerosis of the parties themselves, the political vacuum created by de Gualle, and the general discrediting of the idea of political parties works against such a renovation...