Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one or two plays of stature amid a morass of mediocrity. As a matter of fact, Mr. Capp, it was only after you disassociated yourself from Falk that he offered us in 1957 a season0of nothing but good, plays: Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. He lost money; and last summer he lowered the quality of his choices somewhat, and still lost. So he threw in the towel...
...more recent times, Gaughin and Picasso have used Renaissance and Egyptian figures as inspirations, said Brendel. The Medici Venus statue was the basis for one of Gaughin's figures in his Tahitian paintings, while Picasso has used an ancient statue of a kneeling Venus in his series of paintings: La Comedie Humaine...
...January; the paths of two such remote bodies are very tough to calculate accurately. Only when the august Harvard College Observatory confirmed Taylor's calculations did the occultation of Regulus become a serious concern of world astronomy. The U.S. was ruled out as a major observation point because Venus and Regulus would be close to the eastern horizon with the sun above them. With help from the U.S. Air Force and Boeing Airplane Co., Harvard sent trained observers with elaborate light measuring devices to France, Spain, Italy and Lebanon; other astronomers in South Africa and Asia set up watch...
Astronomers, who consider the planets as prospective real estate for the space age, have longed for years to see Venus occult a bright star. But such events are extremely rare. Venus looks big because of sunlight reflecting brightly from its faintly yellow cloud deck; actually, to earth-bound observers its disk is never larger (usually much smaller) than a golf ball seen from a distance of 500 ft. As the tiny sphere creeps slowly across the star field, it occasionally covers a faint star, but not once since the invention of the telescope 350 years ago has it covered anything...
...clouds, but many reported clear skies. The films, tapes and other records that they made do not look like much, but with careful analysis in the next few months a better picture of the Venusian atmosphere will be assembled. When the first space traveler from earth attempts to explore Venus, he will know much about what to expect, and for that he can thank winking Regulus so many trillion miles away...