Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...envisioned some wild and fantastic advances. Like supersonic planes crossing the Atlantic in three hours, as Michael Lappin predicted. And as David Scatter speculated, "Men may even walk on the moon." Marion Speich fantasized that there would be pushbutton telephones. Ah, but those that dreamed more down-to-earth dreams, how little they knew. "There might be a cure for cancer," thought Gail Lewis. And warmer winters in Buffalo were the vain hope of a boy named Francis...
...waiting for a bus. As the needle climbs, the adrenaline begins to flow faster. We fuss with our equipment, checking again the closures on jumpsuits, the buckles on parachute harnesses, the positions of rip cords on the pilot chutes that will deploy canopies and break our headlong fall to earth...
Crack, crack, crack! The chutes snap open, blossoming in the sky like popcorn. They are a far cry from the old rounded canopies of World War II. Brightly colored, they are designed to allow the jumpers to maneuver on the way to earth. They float downward for two, maybe 2% minutes. Then they are upon you, the suspended jumpers emitting war whoops because it went well, they have made a good dive, and maybe because they are high on their own adrenaline and they feel so good. "We're all adrenaline junkies," says a jumper...
Your article on the Endangered Species Act [Oct. 16] displays the insensitivity with which man exploits the environment for his own short-run economic gain. What a pity that the earth's innocent creatures must pay for this exploitation with their existence. One could look upon man as a cancer consuming the earth, choking other varieties of life in its path as it progresses...
...book overboard. Some of Forster's acid observations on the Raj were effectively challenged, but the art of the novel was beyond refutation. It sang with the poetry of its Indian settings, the hope that British and Indians could only connect. Its echoing conclusion came from the earth and the sky: the time for union was "not yet" and the place "not there...