Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crimes we didn't commit, racial hatreds we don't feel (some of us are black too), poverty we didn't create. Apollo 11 smashed through that unearned guilt the way it punched through the Florida skies. Hearing "The Eagle has landed," no power on earth could have deprived us of the pride we had earned...
...wealth of stories that have their own quiet importance-issues that need explanation, stories of the unexpected, the half-forgotten, the intriguing, the piquant. These, too, create their own impact and fascination. This week, for example, TIME readers will find answers to the following questions in our pages -none earth-shaking in itself, but each contributing toward making a bit more sense out of today's world...
...familiar voice of John Kennedy, recorded during a 1961 special message to Congress, echoed across the vast, suddenly silent plaza. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth . . . " The hush acknowledged the setting of an awesome task only eight years ago, a time that seemed to be both very recent and oddly remote. The cheering that ensued was for the men who reached that ineffable goal-and for the nation that persevered to make it possible...
...proclaimed it, was considered necessary to earn the highest reward after the resurrection, the "celestial kingdom." Some way, then, had to be found to bring into that kingdom those ancestors who had lived while the Gospel was unavailable, or who otherwise had not received the Mormon message while on earth...
...conductors are either dead, such as Mengelberg, Furtwangler, and Walter, or, like Klemperer and Horenstein, extremely old. Since we live in a cultural ochlocracy, political beatitude aside, it is little wonder that this great nation should recognize Mahler's genius fifty years after that any, powerless ornament of the earth, Holland, Characteristically, the eruption of recent apologies have stressed him as a Bold Innovator or as a distraught mid-century man who is, like all of us course, pre-phoenix in spirit. Such descriptions might deeply engage the imagination of the creators on Easy Rider but are a ludicrous profanation...