Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles southwest of Hawaii, hundreds of crewmen, reporters, cameramen and VIP guests anxiously scanned the pre-dawn skies. At 5:41 a.m., shouts of "There it is! There it is!" rose from the aircraft carrier's huge flight deck. For a split second, a tiny orange speck, no brighter than a faint shooting star, shone against the thick, purplish clouds. Apollo 11 had come home; now it was streaking through the earth's familiar atmosphere after completing the most momentous journey in man's history. Two of the three human beings aboard the returning spacecraft had actually...
...nation's largest advertising agencies, Benton & Bowles normally turns its hand to things that are new or improved, whiter or brighter. But last week, in a pained full-page ad in the New York Times, the agency felt compelled to accentuate the abominable. The headline, over a list of Benton & Bowies' 801 Manhattan staffers, announced that "These are the people you haven't been able to reach at PLaza 8-6200." The ad went on to explain sarcastically that there had been "a little phone trouble," and concluded with an appeal to "keep those cards and letters...
...touch and just don't have the information to make a judgment about student radicalism, and activism. Others dismiss it as a "tiny minority." One expressed the feeling that students today are in a better position to challenge authority than ever before. He said students today are generally brighter and more politically oriented than ever before. Many expressed envy at the open unrest in today's college. "We didn't really think for ourselves. We just took what the establishment gave us," said...
...used to have what you call bull sessions in those days, but it never really occurred to us to act on the ideas we developed or the things that bothered us. Students today are probably brighter and more politically oriented than we were. In a way I envy them," said one member of the class...
With beings brighter than have been...