Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allowing for the earth's size and distance, and how much of its disk is in sunlight. Figured this way, the earth's albedo is about .40, which means that it reflects four-tenths of the sunlight that falls on it. It is dimmer than cloud-covered Venus (.64) but much brighter than the naked, rocky moon (.073). The brightness varies a good deal with the season, probably because of changes in the amount of cloud-cover. The oceans and surface reflect less light than clouds...
...leading characters, Venus and Amor, were well portrayed by Malama Providakes and Miss Raisz, and the Souls of the Heartless Women were acted by members of the Radcliffe Dance Group. The ballet was rather unsteady and hesitant, although thoroughly charming, while Venus and Pluto were not relaxed enough in their stage bearing. These imperfections, however, were outweighed by the general excellence of the production: the competent singing, the fine instrumental support, and the brilliant costumery, designed by Anne Hollander--all under the apt direction of Robert Beckwith. The setting, moreover, was very appropriate: the antique statuary and columnwork...
...beyond it. At 1145 a.m. a slender Aerobee rocket rose from a launching tower, the bright flame of its exhaust dwindling to a spark and disappearing among the crowding stars. Then, when the rocket was 60 miles up, a new star bloomed in the sky, brighter than the planet Venus. Swiftly it grew, spreading in ten minutes to four times the diameter of the moon, and shedding half the full moon's brilliance. At this stage the glowing spot was three miles across and was giving far more light than could be accounted for by any sort of fuel...
...sapphire sea and sky, orange groves and olive trees, then with the pastoral charm of tinkling goat bells and squat white stone houses, and finally with its people, who teach him a language of the heart that is puzzlingly Greek to him. Biggest puzzle of all is his Venus de Miloesque wife Iris, who plunges into the thankless chore of running a local clinic without an outward trace of pity for the poverty and peasant ignorance of her fellow islanders. What she is trying to smother in work, Patrick belatedly discovers, is a long-smoldering love interest in the humbly...
...wise frivolity as to suggest that English Novelist David ("Bunny") Garnett has snitched his basic idea from La Ronde. The biological hero of the novel is handsome Alexander Golightly (Alexis to his friends), who is in his late teens when Aspects of Love begins. Aspiring to the labors of Venus rather than Hercules, Alexis proposes two weeks of illicit bliss to Rose, a stranded French actress with a Greek drape shape. They withdraw to an unused south-of-France villa owned by Alexis' uncle. But the uncle, Sir George Dillingham, a 62-year-old Edwardian dandy steals a march...