Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safety officer pressed the button that destroyed the rocket, which had deviated badly from its course. In a month of U.S. flops, this was the pffft seen around the nation-and even if, as scheduled, the U.S. sent a man on a long, downrange missile ride this week, the feat would still seem puny in comparison with the achievement of the Soviet Union's Major "Gaga" Gagarin...
...material, memory and wit. With this equipment, a talker who happens to be, say, a journalist, can Jang out a newspaper column for years in an average daily elapsed time of eleven minutes (so Newspaperman Ruark has coasted; one suspects the creative memory is an aid in recounting the feat). Or he can put together two volumes of yarns about his boyhood and overgrown-boyhood that have the virtues, and all of the faults, of good, whiskyish, late-evening reminiscence...
...faults, certainly is not. The format and typography announce a complete break with the past. The text is set in prose paragraphs, with chapter and verse numbers, those arbitrary designations placed parenthetically in the margins. The type face, mirabile dictu, is both handsome and legible--a feat unmatched in bibles since the first edition of Johannes Guttenberg...
...first is the double-take of the Kennedy Administration after the Soviet man-in-orbit feat. The first reaction actually began long before the actual event, when it was candidly admitted that the United States was second in boosters, would be second for a long time to come, and that the best that could be done was to keep plugging in hopes of catching up. But, like Sputnik, the achievement itself was more stunning than could have been imagined. Kennedy's statement, then, may very well presage a shift from resigned acceptance of a secondary position to withdrawal from those...
Double Scar. Great nations are always criticized when they appear aggressive. They are despised when they seem weak. By backing an inadequate and mismanaged invasion attempt, President Kennedy achieved the unhappy feat of making the U.S. seem both aggressive and weak at the same time. Victory would have brought outcries against "imperialism." but at least it would have been victory. Said a Latin American diplomat to a U.S. diplomat at the U.N.: "You succeeded in Guatemala, and that left a scar. You failed in Cuba, and that will leave a double scar...