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...J.P.L. project, which has a $5.5 million NASA grant, calls for a kitelike framework covered by a square of plastic film measuring a huge 800 meters (2,600 ft.) on a side. The thin sail (ordinary plastic kitchen wrap is five times thicker) would be coated with an aluminum reflecting layer on the side that will face the sun, and painted a heat-absorbing black on the other side. The total weight of the sail and the instrument-packed ship mounted in a hole at its center will be only 5,000 kilograms (11,000 lbs.)-a payload that could...
Still, the huge sailer poses a problem. The sail must be carried aloft furled (folded, it will fit into a package of only one cubic meter) and the framework assembled far beyond the atmosphere. Luckily, NASA is readying a suitable ferry: the space shuttle. Capable of carrying the sail and framework in its large equipment bay, the shuttle should be in regular use by the proposed launch date for the sailing ship: January...
Once the package has been hauled by the shuttle into near-earth orbit, a small rocket will push it to escape velocity. At about 100,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) above the earth, the framework will be assembled and the sail deployed automatically...
...critical contributions has, in fact, been the attempt to separate literary criticism from belief. "A man may be a great poet and still be little better than an idiot in many of his personal attitudes," Frye is convinced. On one level, the mythological structures Frye sees as providing the framework for poetry transcend any question of belief. More generally, he maintains that "when belief is a matter of uncritical acceptance of the unprovable, the less we believe the better...
...liberal, his approach to literature is structuralist, in the very loosest sense of the term. Frye's concern is not with style or literary history or the psychological or social bases of literary expression. He believes rather that each work of art is rooted within a mythological framework derived, in our culture, from the Bible. Frye's main theoretical interest in recent years has been the classification of the various narrative movements and symbolic elements which characterize particular literary modes. His Norton lectures, for example, dealt with the structure of romance, which he referred to as "the secular scripture...