Word: life
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs. With a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers...
...ANGELES, CALIF. Ebony Showcase. An all-black cast performs Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns, about the friendship of a nonconformist lover of life and his polysyllabic twelve-year-old ward...
Armstrong and Aldrin struggled to put on their boots, gloves, helmets and backpacks (known as PLSS, or Portable Life Support System), then depressurized Eagle's cabin and opened the hatch Wriggling backward out of the hatch on his stomach, Armstrong worked his way across the LM "porch" to the ladder and began to climb down On his way he pulled a lanyard that opened the MESA (Modularized Equipment Storage Assembly) and exposed the camera that televised the remainder of his historic descent. Thus the miracle of the moon flight was heightened by the miracle of TV from outer space, made...
...induce her to run away with him. This dialogue takes place on a bridge overlooking the yard of the famous train station, and the bars of the bridge reinforce her own knowledge that the freedom she might feel would soon dissipate into a new version of her present life. The man finally tells her that if she does not go away with him he will commit suicide, that it was only the sight of her which prevented him from doing so moments earlier. After she refuses him once more, he jumps off the bridge, leaving her screaming behind its bars...
...giving thanks for this supreme teacher, supreme conductor, supreme human being--G. Wallace Woodworth, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, B.A., M.A., Mus. Doc., Litt. D. He was all of this--triumphantly. But most important, was Woody. His favorite novelist, Joseph Conrad, once wrote that "a man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reasons of respect or natural love." In Woody's case, it was both...