Word: horizons
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...saying, 'You can't merge with nature.' You are a man. You want things that nature doesn't want. You would like to live forever, and nature will kill you. So you stand and you look at nature, framed out there on the horizon. You are an urban dweller who is trying to make contact with it, and in a very fundamental sense you can never really do so except on a level of profound melancholy...
...from or defiance of an established order. Their earliest pride was that of the fresh start. "Under their hand, political principles, laws, and human institutions seem malleable, capable of being shaped and combined at will," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. "A course almost without limits, a field without horizon, is revealed." Americans on the whole have tended to agree with Chesterton, who said: "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes-our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead...
...eyed after two days without sleep, stocky, sandy-haired Rear Admiral William Guest ordered crewmen on the sea-stained, 2,100-ton submarine rescue ship U.S.S. Petrel to start heaving in on the winch. Four cold, tense hours later, as dawn exploded over the Mediterranean horizon, the sunken 2,800-lb. H-bomb that had defied every attempt at retrieval for 80 days splashed out of the water onto the Petrel's fantail...
...horizon is only that...
...earth days before lunar nightfall descended, British scientists were hopeful that the spacecraft's solar-powered batteries might last long enough for it to transmit pictures of the same scenes at regular intervals for several days. Then, as the sun gradually moved through its zenith toward the lunar horizon, ridges and rocks would cast changing shadows that would reveal more information about their size and shape. But at week's end the Russians announced that they had completed Luna 9's program, leading the scientists to speculate that its batteries had failed-perhaps because its solar cells...