Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon and space, home from the perils that never happened, home to their families and friends and to something rare in the world that sent them. Home to the miracle of men feeling something together, men strangely undivided in a time of fierce dissension, men all over the earth feeling wonder and warmth and pride. And we suddenly wondered if somehow we could capture and preserve what we feel this day. And if we could, is not a better world of men possible...
...Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man; the storm-grey sea yields to his prows, the huge crests bear him high; earth, holy and inexhaustible, is graven with shining furrows where his plows have gone . . ." (Antigone...
...Year, let us hope that next year's selection will be an individual or group of individuals who will possess the same courage, the same determination and the same national support in solving the tragic domestic and "political problems that face us all on earth...
...know that we could conceivably be standing quietly on the moon staring at the earth or even staring the other way. "History" is intriguing to paw through because of the illusion it creates about cause and effect; it tells us that one event led to this second event which finally determined that memorable catastrophe over there. But the philosophical meaning of an experience can't be comprehended by dropping it into a historical chain. We must understand it as part of the flow, a drop in the flood of every sensation surrounding...
...make such speed possible, the railroads would have to spend billions to improve rails, roadbeds, signals and grade crossings, and that would require much Government subsidy. Since the Government obviously has higher-priority projects-spaceships, supersonic transport planes and down-to-earth welfare spending-such heavy expenditures will have to wait for some future generation. But the trains have finally begun to speed up, and that should be welcome news to passengers and railroads alike...