Word: zeus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caldwell's mortal wound comes from the indifference of students at Olinger (read Olympus) High, and the casual thunderings of its Principal Zimmerman (read Zeus). He is, moreover, tormented by the teasing lechery of Vera (Venus), the gym teacher, and the unreliability of his old Buick, which must be fixed by Vera's husband Hummel (Hephaestus), a cuckolded garage keeper...
Widening Awe. Through the author's elaborate literary construction, Caldwell-Chiron clumps on two feet or prances on four. In both shapes his portrait is memorable. The other god-teachers, too, are drawn with grace and wit. There is a wry. schoolboy truth in seeing Father Zeus as a capricious pedagogue who tyrannizes teachers and likes to fondle the shoulders of girl students...
This statement is not true. Equipment carried by the target vehicle was completely incapable of affecting, favorably or unfavorably, the performance of the Nike-Zeus...
...TIME erred. The Atlas device was a "miss distance indicator" to enable ground stations to tell how close the Nike-Zeus came to the target during the intercept...
...sets is shot in a different, often bizarre locale-supposedly the terrain covered by "the lively set," whom the show's publicists define as Forddriving youngsters who have outgrown rock 'n' roll. Last week's show had Trumpeter Shorty Rogers at a Nike-Zeus site, Pianist Peter Nero playing beneath a radar scanner, the New Christy Minstrels on the Pacific beach near Los Angeles; also another show starred Ella Fitzgerald. Stan Kenton realized what must have been a lifelong ambition by directing a field of playerless instruments dangling from wires, while the real orchestra...