Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concert tonight is distinguished by the fact that it will mark a special sort of homecoming for Jacquet because it is here that he found the inspiration to start the big band which plays on "Jacquet's Got It". Through the efforts of the Harvard Jazz Band and the Office for the Arts, Jacquet appeared as a part of the the Learning From Performers series...
...army on the right. Wallace, truculent and charismatic in a darkling way, ran a third-party campaign that attracted a large following among blue-collar workers, ethnics, and Middle Americans who felt abandoned by their own country and its politics. There was poetry, if not logic, in the fact that many voters who would have supported Robert Kennedy switched to Wallace after Kennedy's death. Kennedy and Wallace, so different in most ways, drew from the same deep pools of passion and longing for a voice...
...Fertility doesn't stand out as well here as it does on earth. There's not as much contrast between that and the surrounding craters. The craters are all rounded off." Astronaut James Lovell skimmed less than 70 miles above the lunar surface as he gave that matter-of- fact first impression of the earth's great, ghostly satellite. Lovell waxed more metaphoric as he described the great blue ball, 233,000 miles away, that he, Frank Borman and William Anders had left some 69 hours earlier. "The earth from here is a grand ovation to the big vastness...
...flight was also a profoundly intimate marriage of science and dream, progress and exploration -- what, in fact, the New World had always stood for. "You have made us feel kin to those Europeans five centuries ago who first heard news of the New World," Lyndon Johnson told the astronauts by telephone aboard the carrier Yorktown. "You've seen what man has never seen before." One of those things, which was to grow in significance in forthcoming decades, was the earth's finitude: with Apollo 8, humanity had found a godlike perch from which to examine its collective limits...
...fact that Harvard's been off," Sanborn said, "I don't know if that's good...