Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should be pointed out that man tried to stop himself from building this doomsday machinery, but he failed. And this is only a clue to the true vastness of the futility in trying to avoid the end of the world. For while perhaps Esquire's doctor is wrong and maybe the winds of the uper atmosphere will keep the earth cool and the ice caps frozen, there still remains the threat of thousands of unforescen catastrophes that we are only now becoming capable...
This does not mean that we should pretend that the end of the world is not coming or that we should ignore it. Rather, with the end of the world somewhere in mind, we should avoid doing absurd things just because we hope that they will be "remembered by mankind." Mankind will not be in a position to remember anything. We should not slave all our lives at dull jobs just to pile up enough cash so "our children will have everything...
...mend its fences with space scientists. So when the moon rocks, the first tangible scientific payoff of the Apollo program, arrived, NASA went overboard. The agency received hundreds of research proposals and eventually narrowed them down to 142 projects. Some NASA consultants wanted to eliminate still more proposals, to avoid the hassle of two or three principle investigators claiming priority for the same discovery. Headquarters overruled them. "They wanted to spread the goodies around the country," said one researcher. "It's damn plain foolishness. Four or five or more experimenters are doing the same work, using the same techniques...
Many students who do not want to enter college do so to avoid the draft...
...expected May's revolt. Everyone realized the potential of the student movement, but lacking any one strong organization no one took it seriously. The success and originality of Cohn-Bendit and friends were to avoid abstract polities and instead concentrate on university issues, which gradually led to political issues...