Word: yars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...launched at a later time of day than previous Cosmos shots and had returned to earth after 122 revolutions, instead of the usual 124. In a letter to the Brit ish magazine Flight International, Perry reported that Cosmos 112 could not have been launched from either Tyuratam or Kapustin Yar, the two known Russian launch sites, both of which are in the southern part of the Soviet Union. Instead, he suggested, it had been launched from a more northerly site-perhaps the southernmost tip of Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Barents...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO, BABII YAR AND OTHER POEMS (Caedmon). Russia's most prominent licensed nonconformist renders his role as rebellious poet in wax, and the impression is not flattering. A listener with no knowledge of Russian can have only an approximate sense of the quality of the original language in Yevtushenko's reading. The contents of the verses, however, can be judged in Alan Bates's English translation, and they do not seem to burn with artistic flame-they itch like inflammations. Except for the famous piece Babii Yar, which is more an emphatic speech than a poem...
...Last Yar at Marienbad, made in 1961, corrected many of the technical faults of Hiroshima and allowed Resnais to push further into the realm of abstraction. By 1963, when he made Muriel, Resnais was in unquestionable control of his medium, rendering the slightest impressions subject to his intent. At this juncture, Resnais seems far closer to the Italian director Michaelangelo Antonioni than to his New Wave counterparts; but then, anything is permissible in the New Wave...
...made to order for a lively, Lindsay-style Republican. The most densely populated state in the Union (860.3 inhabitants per sq. mi.), New Jersey has almost as many problems as people. State-supported colleges are so crowded that 50% of the qualified applicants have to be turned away each yar. Other public institutions, from hospitals to orphanages, are archaic and inadequate. Highways are clogged, while the state road program lags for lack of funds. Though its rivers and air are hopelessly polluted, the Garden State has only a token anti-pollution program...
...Weltner is a promising young liberal. He vigorously supported the Civil Rights Bill, remained neutral on on the Mississippi Freedom Party issue at the convention, and was re-elected last yar by a constituency that has recently become 50 per cent Negro. Mr. Willis is an aged conservative. Less colorful and outspoken than former HUAC Chairman Francis Walter, Willis has nevertheless followed Walter's guidelines faithfully. Though he has never said so, Willis no doubt agrees with Walter's position that HUAC has jurisdiction only over Communist and left-wing political activities, an opinion that has for years drawn fire...