Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Make something happen, something so new and beautiful, so ancient and obvious that our eyes are changed, becoming themselves, again...
...World, no immediate chance for settlement on a new frontier. But the most important fact about America's discovery was not material, not the wealth and territory that it added to the known world. It was rather the spiritual and intellectual challenge with which it shook that ancient, flat, small, circumscribed, warring village that was the world before Columbus. Thus, the age of space that emerged in the last days of 1968 may offer spiritual and intellectual challenge that will shake the new, vast, complex, circumscribed, warring cosmopolis that was the world before Apollo...
...excitement, the stress would be unendurable. To go to the moon is symbolic of mans leaving earth, of opening vast new frontiers." The impending flight inspired Robert Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, to deliver a rhapsodic Christmas message to the centers 4,500 employees: "Perhaps the ancient mariners had the same feeling of anticipation as they set sail through the Straits of Gibraltar past the limits of the known world...
...Cambodia, the ICC was constantly broke. In Saigon, its rickety Citroëns with their tattered ICC flags had become mobile monuments. At one point this year, the ICC in Viet Nam was so badly squeezed for funds that Aigle Azur, the French air charter that provides the battered, ancient Boeing 307 Stratoliners for the weekly commission flights linking Saigon, Pnompenh, Vientiane and Hanoi, refused further fly-now, pay-later trips...
...noxious gas that swims in your earthly light --ancient Dutch hymn...