Word: dreamful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Within the lifetime of one generation, science has realized and overpassed every age-old dream of humanity to which it has applied itself. Why are we so reluctant to use science to achieve a longer and healthier life; maybe to live for centuries, so that we can see all the wonders that we so glibly talk about? Who can say today that we could...
...affairs of his neighbors [July 18]? Any adult over 30 knows most of the answers. The obvious villains are civilization, urbanization and specialization. Since the disappearance of the frontier, we have become a race of emasculated, unarmed, untrained, helpless nonfighters, who live in a "packaged" mass-media dream world and have been brainwashed to leave the dirty work to trained professionals: police, doctors, lawyers, soldiers, firemen, plumbers, etc. We have seen too many heroes and do-gooders get shot, knifed, beaten, insulted, embarrassed, inconvenienced -and would you believe sued-to have much stomach to intrude into the lives and crises...
...BREAD, DON'T GIVE ME THE MOON. On the other hand, Italy's Paese Sera, the unofficial Communist evening paper, devoted twelve pages to Apollo and ran a complimentary picture of Richard Nixon. In Paris, even the Communist paper L'Humanite called the moon walk a "dream from the depths of time realized"-although it managed to keep the words United States and American off its front page...
Tsiolkovsky and Goddard are dead. Oberth, now 75 and living quietly near Nürnberg on a meager pension, has mixed feelings now that his lifelong dream is about to come true. "Sometimes I feel like an unmusical person who attends a concert and doesn't really understand what seems to excite everybody," he says. "On other occasions I feel like a mother goose who has hatched a brood and now, somewhat perplexed, watches the flock going off into the water. It is only very rarely that I have the satisfaction that everybody believes I ought to feel...
...take a step without crushing a beer can. The Jax beer brewery is right here in the Quarter on the banks of the Mississippi River. Good beer that Jax. And cheap: only thirty cents in most bars. People drink it all the time. Last night I had a dream that the daily afternoon cloud burst happened to be Jax beer this time around. It was a little sticker than the usual rain, but no one in New Orleans was surprised. I can't imagine them ever being surprised...