Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...
...WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...
...WARD 7 by Valeriy Tarsis. 159 pages. Dutton...
Intellectuals in the West made wide ly publicized protests, and eight months later Tarsis was released. He proceeded promptly to make the most of his martyrdom by writing a full report on his life in the political loony bin. Published last spring in Britain, Ward 7 was analyzed by the Western press with melancholy fascination as an up-to-date treatise on thought control in the Soviet Union (TIME, May 21). Published this week in the U.S., the book may surprise the reader who expects nothing more than a political document-it is also a work of art. Admittedly...
Surface Slots. On the ground, Lee Norman, NASA parasail-project engineer, sat at his instrument panel, per forming functions by remote control that might have been handled by on board astronauts. With remarkable ease, Norman sailed his descending craft for ward and back, left and right, like a pilot looking for a place to land. Control was maintained by pulling on shroud lines that closed or opened slots around the surface of the parasail. With slots closed on one side, air spilled out the other, acting, in effect, as an in efficient jet engine, shoving the chute and its cargo...