Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hamilton Fish Armstrong, former editor of Foreign Affairs: "The President has a second chance now, but nothing will justify the bombing of the North. Millions of Americans are disgusted by it and feel uneasy about not being given any rationale or explanation...
Comfort, who outlines his views in the current issue of the magazine Center Report, last week detailed his vision of the future in an interview with TIME'S Los Angeles Correspondent Lois Armstrong. As he sees it, clues to what lies ahead can be discerned in the attitudes of young people. "They shy away from the idea of total self-surrender," Comfort observes. "They say, There must be a piece of myself for myself. It isn't that I don't love you, but I don't dig this symbiotic fusion.' " Just as many young...
...best of the images grew into a frieze of transcendence, chiseled on the edges of the mind like Wordsworth's intimations of immortality: the readings from Genesis as Apollo 8 spun toward its rendezvous with the dark side of the moon; the "giant leap for mankind" as Neil Armstrong set his booted foot into the moon dust; the vision of the earth from space, a milky sapphire hanging alone and fragile in the blackness; and then Apollo 17 -a pillar of fire cutting up into the night, spreading a carpet of orange clouds and the sound of thunder behind...
...peace and hope for all mankind." As he uttered those hopeful and heartfelt words, Apollo 17's commander, Gene Cernan, stepped from the surface of the moon and clambered up the ladder of lunar module Challenger. Cernan's departure may not be remembered as long as Neil Armstrong's historic arrival three years ago. Nonetheless it was a profound and moving moment that was put in perspective by a presidential pronouncement: "This may be the last time in this century," said Richard Nixon, "that men will walk on the moon...
Sounder, by William Armstrong, Harper...