Word: planets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veblen approached social criticism as if he were some expert envoy-extraordinary sent from a distant planet to report on human behavior. Under this bland mask of anthropological detachment he hid his passionate conviction that man, in being forced to labor in the sweat of his brow, was not paying a divine penalty for sin but simply giving vent to his most powerful natural passion : "the instinct of workmanship...
...long now until the mistreated earth will be unable to feed the ever-multiplying billions of people who swarm over it. This is the considered warning of Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society, in a recently published book, Our Plundered Planet (Little, Brown...
...there living beings-or Some form of life-on the planet Mars? No one knows. But last week Mars paid one of its close (63,000,000 miles away) visits to earth. Its inhabitants, if any, could have taken a good look at their big, cloud-blotched neighbor. And staring down the Martians' hypothetical throats from McDonald Observatory, Texas was Dutch-born Astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper...
...youthful cinder of two or three billion years, the earth has a lot of ailments. And man, the principal sufferer, knows precious little about the earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves and other ills that plague the planet. Last week, in a new book, Causes of Catastrophe (Whittlesey; $3), Lewis Don Leet, professor of seismology at Harvard, summed up some old and new diagnoses...
...hundred years ago next month, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published their famed Manifesto: "A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism." Last week Russia prepared to celebrate the anniversary with suitable huzzahs. "I would like old Marx to see how we are now storming the planet!" cried young Poet Sergei Narovchatov in an ode for the literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). Other excerpts from Poet Narovchatov's proud progress report...