Word: crafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...progress of black American writing, Novelist Toni Morrison once said, is marked by five stages. First comes the heat of protest, and then the more reflective search for personal identity. This is followed by an exploration of culture, a refinement of craft and finally a wider vision of the world. But the important thing, says Morrison, is not to explain but "to bear witness, to record." The author, who is also an editor at Random House, did this in The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973), novels that dealt with blacks in the Middle West, where the author was born...
Taiwan could probably fend off a military attack from the mainland. Taiwan's 500-plane air force, which includes advanced U.S. F-5E fighters, is considered superior to the mainland's obsolescent fleet; moreover, the Communists do not have the amphibious craft needed to land troops on the island. Still, a U.S. decision to break its formal ties with Taipei could be devastating to Taiwanese morale. But until it happens-if it does-there is no way of knowing just how serious the psychological blow to Taiwan will be if it loses, finally, its most powerful ally...
Dougie and I climb aboard Fat Albert's gondola, Dougie fires the burners again, and our craft ascends into the New Jersey mist. In the distance, other balloons move like baubles on a mobile, rising and dipping in the breeze. There is solitude in the air. Except for the occasional fire of the burners, the rest is silence. The land shrinks to lilliputian dimensions; horses run from this spectacle in the sky, and people on their porches, retrieving their Sunday papers, look up and wave. There is no sensation of movement-our balloon is moving with the wind...
...space shuttle's historic test began at dawn, when a cherry picker lifted Pilot Fred Haise Jr., 43, a civilian, and Copilot Charles Gordon Fullerton, 40, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, aboard the craft. Two hours later, engines roaring, the 747 mother ship raced down the runway and rose into the air with the Enterprise clinging to its back like a mating insect. Accompanied by five silver T-38 chase planes that drifted around the pair like pilot fish escorting a shark, the odd couple climbed slowly to 8,100 meters (27,000 ft.). At that altitude...
...ship's five computers, her brief flight went exactly according to plan. "You're flying good," said one of the chase pilots, as the free-flying Enterprise tested her wings for the first time. A few moments later, Haise and Fullerton dropped the heavy craft down, then pulled up in a "flare," or simulated landing maneuver, to evaluate the orbiter's landing characteristics. "It's really there," said a delighted Haise of the shuttle's ease of handling. "Really tight...