Word: aloftness
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Against Interpretation has everything wrong with it. With no effort at all one can find inaccurate epithets (Camus' language is "stately ... an inexhaustible self-perpetuating oratory); mixed metaphors ("Saint Genet is a cancer of a book, grotesquely vebose, its cargo of brilliant ideas borne aloft by a tone of viscous soleminity and by ghastly repetitiveness"); solemn statements of the obvious ("The truth is, some works of theater may be judged primarily as of works of literature, others and attempts to be "in" ("those four wonderful Floppy Raggedy Andy dolls, the Beatles...
...earnest, self-effacing civilian engineer who was to have commanded the Gemini 9 mission, had spent six years checking out the hottest planes aloft as a General Electric test pilot when he became an astronaut in 1962. Bassett, an outgoing Air Force major who was to have taken a 60-minute walk in space during the flight toting an instrument-crammed, 166-lb. pack on his back, served as a fighter pilot in Korea and a test pilot at California's Edwards Air Force Base before joining the space program...
...North Viet Nam had been free of U.S. fighter-bombers, while the U.S. vainly probed Hanoi for some sign of willingness to talk peace. When at last patience was exhausted, the code message flashed out from the Pentagon via Pearl Harbor to Saigon, and last week American jets roared aloft to end the bombing pause...
During the war, Court Gross went to Burbank as Lockheed's general manager, showed his executive ability by unscrambling the production tangles sometimes left by his brother's impulsive decisions. At war's end, Lockheed stayed aloft because it was ready not only with the four-engine Constellation, which ran away with the first round of airline orders, but with the U.S.'s first jet fighter, the F80 Shooting Star, which provided the basic design for so many later models that Lockheed engineers nicknamed it "Old Hodgepodge...
Hazelwood leased a plane at his own expense, took his students aloft. Then he taught a second class two nights a week to 18 teachers so they could qualify to teach ground-school courses. He also found three other flying instructors in the school system and two already qualified ground teachers. The pilot-instructors include two Negro teachers (a third of the students are Negro) plus Mrs. Georgia Eidson, an energetic history teacher and former Women's Air Force pilot. With that nucleus, school officials made the course a regular part of the curriculum this year. It includes instruction...