Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCANT decade ago, man was making his first tentative probes into near space. Now, his eye fixed on the moon, that cold and lifeless globe with its borrowed light, he was poised to soar beyond earth's atmosphere, beyond the 40,000-mile-deep magnetosphere and into a vast and trackless void. The moon flight was man's first great extraterrestrial venture...
...South America, however, military hardware has uses other than defense. It affords armies an undisputed strength at home that makes them the continent's most effective political force. In the present circumstances, the vast majority of the officers feel that the armies need ail the strength they can get. Though Fidel Castro is not their idol, South American youths, who represent by far the fastest-growing segment of the population, are swinging ever more to the left. The officers, who mostly embody conservative, lower-middle-class views, hope to arrest that movement with tough government action. They are also...
...their programs through either by taking advantage of Soviet technical lapses or by employing classified tricks of their own. And once through the barriers, they have an eager and well-equipped audience. Short-wave transmitters are much more common in the Soviet Union than in other nations because the vast size of the nation makes short-wave transmission the most practical way to reach the entire country. Perhaps as many as 30 million receivers are now in use, and listeners have become so fond of outside news and pop music (a recent headliner on the Voice of America: the Beatles...
...focus by editing his scores and clarifying their historic and esthetic background. Today's performers, heirs to the Baroque revival of recent decades, have a better sense of 18th century style, and instinctively reject the romantic excesses of the past. The advent of the LP has created a vast new audience for Bach, as it has for other composers; but Bach is a special beneficiary because his many intimate, complex compositions generally sound better in the home than in a large concert hall. In 1949, there were 15 Bach albums on the market; today there are more than...
Critic Alfred Kazin suggests that "at bottom Steinbeck's gift was not so much a literary resource as a distinctively harmonious and pacific view of life. The Depression naturalists saw life as one vast Chicago slaughterhouse, a guerrilla war, a perpetual bombing raid. Steinbeck had picked up a refreshing belief in human fellowship and courage: he had learned to accept the rhythm of life...