Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, has been making a big splash recently with his call for greater involvement of the public in the affairs of th earth world. People at Harvard often talk of breaking down the barriers which have traditionally kept the university aloof from the life of the people of Cambridge. One must be careful, however, that in the process one does not dilute what Curator Bond has called "the raw material" of scholarship. One must be careful in building up a new community not to destroy another, equally important...
...CRIMSON quoted Daniel Webster '28 about radicals in this country: "In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where the wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer that he is but an oppressed slave...
...moon is the immediate target, NASA is already looking far beyond it. "The real goal is to demonstrate the capability for interplanetary travel," Administrator Paine said last week. "We are providing the most exciting possible answer to the age-old question of whether life as we know it on earth can exist on the moon and planets. The answer is yes. Man can extend the domain of terrestrial life throughout the solar system." If Paine's flat assertion sounded somewhat premature, or unduly optimistic, there was good cause. Apollo 10 was the sort of flight that can inspire even...
...wire will be snapped off, the plaster will break, and the carnation will give off its perfume again." Added a university professor, who has recently been dismissed from his post by the regime: "Let us hope that by next spring flowers will be able to bloom again from the earth, and not from plaster...
...moon headlines, as plausible as the current plan to place returning U.S. astronauts in bacteria-proof "biological isolation garments." The book's thesis: puny man, poised on the edge of the new world of space, runs a great danger of upsetting the old world of earth. Each space capsule re-entering from orbit in the unknown is a potential bearer of extraterrestrial organisms capable of unleashing a biological plague...