Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About an hour later, Haley discovered what he wanted. "Suddenly I found myself looking down: Tom Murray, Occupation?blacksmith,' and beneath him, 'Irene, M?for Mulatto,' and their children. The youngest was Elizabeth, age six. And that really grabbed me. That was Aunt Liz. I used to sit on her front porch and play with her long gray hair. The experience galvanized me. Grandma's words became real. It wasn't that I had not believed her. You just didn't not believe Grandma. But there was something about the fact that what Grandma had been talking about was right...
...journey of a thousand miles, said Chinese Philosopher Lao-tzu, must begin with a single step. So must a journey of millions of miles. Early in 1979 a squat and ungainly-looking craft known as a space-shuttle orbiter will open up a new age in space exploration-the era of the reusable spacecraft-by taking its first round trip around the earth and back. Last week the first of these craft stepped off on this journey into history. In a daylong trek, the ship was moved 58 kilometers (36 miles) across California's Mojave Desert from the Rockwell...
Down to Earth. For a writer whose volumes are peppered with words like supracosmical and mythometaphysical, Carl Henry began his career in down-to-earth fashion. After high school, he started at a $12-a-week job selling newspaper subscriptions. By age 20 he had worked himself up to being Long Island's youngest newspaper editor, on the Smithtown Star. One morning in 1933, Church Dropout Henry found himself in a car discussing religion with an ardent layman. After three hours, he says, "I made a commitment to Christ. I knew my life was no longer...
...nonaddict. Yet the drug Baudelaire was most addicted to was hope: luxe, calme et volupté-the elegance of Islamic paradise, a Christian's heavenly peace and a pagan bliss of the senses. Baudelaire chanted of this blessed trinity while he suffered the diseases of the age: poverty, rage and soul-withering ennui...
...human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?" So wrote Dante 600 years ago. Even in his age, the idea of individual flight was an ancient desire. Today no fantasy remains more universal than that of the airborne human, riding updrafts like a bird. Most people restrict their air travel to those steelbound auditoriums shuttling back and forth between continents or coasts, an experience that comes no closer to free flight than watching a rerun of Twelve O'Clock High. But as British Science Writer Peter Haining relates in his delightful chronicle...