Word: afterglow
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...warm afterglow of the first joint American-Soviet mission, NASA officials are already talking about inviting the Russians to take part in the shuttle program, possibly by using it to visit a future Soviet space station. But as last week's precarious Apollo landing served to re-emphasize, such facile space politics carries human as well as diplomatic risks in exposing men and their fragile machines to the still formidable hazards of unforgiving space...
...audience and the band, both drained from the heated final set, sink back in the sweet afterglow, Sha Na Na tenderly closes out the concert with "Lovers Never Say Goodbye...
Fighting off a syncope, Rip flees to a bookstore. He is just in time for the revisionist historians. When Rip left the U.S. the faint afterglow of Kennedy magic was still warm to the touch. Then they called it charisma. Now they call it Sha-melot. Such books as Henry Fairlie's The Kennedy Years and David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest sound the knell for the '60s and its leaders. The returnee has missed the spate of Concerned Books: Soul On Ice, Deschooling Society, The Whole Earth Catalog-when Rip left, earth was only...
...returning from the Soviet Union shortly after the revolution, Lincoln Steffens wrote, "I have seen the future, and it works." In the afterglow of the victorious revolution, anything seemed possible; a new age had begun! Even as the groundwork of a socialist economy was being laid, Russian Futurist avant-gardists were experimenting with socialist consciousness...
...cultural movement, have always been exploitable commodities. When swathed in the rhetoric of one side or the other, they gain momentum and become issues: impounded in books and supported by experts, they gain time and become history. But rarely are they presented to us without the benefit of afterglow or hindsight-and yet it is only when they stand alone that they permit us to remember the past in its own peculiar light and to see the present as growing from that past...