Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation poised uneasily for change: "I would like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi, which I think are particularly apt at the moment: 'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony; where there is doubt, may we bring faith; where there is despair, may we bring hope.' Now that the election is over, may we get together and strive to serve and strengthen the country...
With the advent of home rule, Greenlandic, an Eskimo tongue, replaces Danish as the official language, and towns now have new names. Godthaab (Good Hope in Danish) becomes Nûk, which means Point, after the capital's peninsular location. Greenland is now Kalâtdlit-Nunât, or Land of the People. But new names do not solve old social problems, and Greenland's are serious...
...make the car, Moody and Shetley needed six weeks and $10,000, of which $5,200 was the price of the Capri. They hope that they can eventually mass-produce the Moodymobile for as little as $7,400. Although noisy, the car already has its supporters. Says Bill Gordon, chairman of the automotives department at Daytona Beach Community College: "I was skeptical when they brought the car in for testing. But it does everything they said it would and more...
Like Python, Beyond the Fringe specializes in heavily satiric parodies of the moronic aspects of "the hurly-burly of modern existence," as exemplified by the morons themselves--the twit who shows up at an opera he does not like 497 times in the hope of catching a glimpse of the royal family, the Scotland Yard detective with all the intellect (if not looks) of an iguana in heat, the one-footed man ("unidexter" is the term used) who wants to try out for the role of Tarzan...
...near to reaching that point? There is no way of telling since the evidence is not at all tangible or quantifiable. It seems as if the only hope of verifying the model is to wait for a nuclear disaster to occur and then analyze the effects with hindsight. If we are truly at a "critical turning point" as the authors claim, then it should be apparent very soon whether we are to have many power plants or none...