Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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GARDNER strives to be cosmic, rather than merely relevant, and though he fails, he fails in a good cause. His style is excellent, occasionally lyrical, often funny. The difference between the prose of Agathon and Demodokos, and thus between their characters, is skillfully handled. The characterization of Agathon is a bit too broad and obviously symbolic to be completely successful, however, and it is on this character that the book stands or falls...
...flourish most luxuriantly. Here one is not being merely speculative. Oswald Spengler-another famous twentieth-century cynical historian-veers dangerously close to this position. In the second volume of The Decline of the West he wrote that "The regular periodicity of certain events is yet another indication that the cosmic surgings in the form of human life on a small planet are not something self-contained but rather stand in profound harmony with the unending movement of the universe....[Thus] the relationship of periods of war to those of the weather, sun-spots, and certain planetary conjunctions is established...
...Words have been my only love," says Beckett. This show is abundant proof of that. The word as dance, as flame, as dirge, as echo, as whip, as caress, as cosmic howl-they are all here, and MacGowran catches every cadence perfectly...
...small crater. The robot also displayed impressive scientific skills. Like Luna 16, it carries a device to gouge out samples of lunar soil. It also has the capacity to analyze samples -with an onboard X-ray spectrometer -and report the findings to earth. In addition, it can detect cosmic rays, stomp on the ground to test its rigidity and-speculates Heinz Kaminski of West Germany's Bochum Observatory, where the radio transmissions from Russian space shots are carefully monitored -take three-dimensional pictures of the lunar surface with its multiple cameras for making maps of the moon...
...justified, the sudden jealousy finally arising when his infant son takes up most of Sarah's attention remains inexplicable-unless it signifies that his position as a hero in Korty's mythology is summarily halted, and that he is now the father-figure to be fought against: a cheap cosmic statement which undercuts everything which Sarah and Danny have lived through to this point. Even Sarah's father, who is for the most part merely an appropriate villain, is fitted with incestuous cravings which are as embarrassingly emphasized as they are incongruous...