Word: planet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to send out an all-points bulletin that one or more of their dolphins is missing. Canada or Sweden would doubtless be glad to offer the cheerful creatures haven, as would a good many Americans who share the conviction that man's most intelligent rival on the planet ought to be spared his wars...
Menzel, who served as a "trouble-shooter" for the Air Force during the flying saucer craze, is well-know as a debunker of reports that unidentified flying objects are actually spacecraft from another planet. He is the author of Astronomy, a popular survey of the field, published last month by Random House...
...things are changing," Republican Leader Hugh Scott told his Senate colleagues not long ago. "And we are changing with them. Omnia mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Right on, Senator Scott! Congress may be changing, but at what a pace. About as often as the planet Pluto swings around the sun, Congress does indeed bestir itself, examines the archaic rules by which it conducts the nation's business and gently blows away some of the accumulated dust of more than 180 years. But never enough to disturb one tradition -the hallowed rule of seniority-that has often prevented Congress...
...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 and accordingly a great war is foretold for 1910-1920. But these...
...novels (Malone Dies, Molloy, The Vnnameable) and plays (Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, Endgame). Cloaked in a black-spattered coffin of a coat, head and body shaken with keening tremors, and eyes stony with grief, MacGowran is the symbol of a man exiled from his own planet but imprisoned in his being...