Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 60. What really happened? History relies on memory, and memory on will. An 11th century Chinese emperor possessed a newly invented clock, which his people knew about, though no one owned a clock but he. When the emperor died, the imperial clock was allowed to fall apart, and everyone forgot that such a device had ever existed. Five hundred years later, Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest, arrived in Asia bearing a new Italian invention called a clock. The Chinese marveled at the thing...
...possibility that Russia might rush into the Middle East gave urgency to the efforts of peacemakers. The U.S. and Britain and France got back together again, after a week tragically apart. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced that Britain and France had agreed to a ceasefire...
Although the union members are now back on the job, they are still without a contract to replace the one that ran out last April, and a tentative agreement has fallen apart. "I was delighted when I thought we could settle this thing without a strike," says Lewis. "Now I'm a little dismayed and angry...
...welcome in Houston at a suffocating barbecue inside a flag-bedecked sports arena, with Sally Rand doing her fan dance, and Yeager's last, gallant, failed effort to set an altitude record alone in the sky over his desert. In fact, the two events took place 17 months apart, and this is one of the more dubious symbolic linkages. But Sam Shepard, the playwright and occasional movie actor, has a wonderful, hypnotic stillness as Yeager. He is a solid rock on which to build a film and most pleasing to the old pilot, who worked on the film...
...Lutheran and Catholic theologians, meeting in Milwaukee, announced that they had reached essential agreement on the meaning of "justification," one of the key issues of the Protestant Reformation. The theologians said the remaining points of difference about this doctrine were no longer reason to keep their churches apart...