Word: lindberghism
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...anyone contemplating Glenn's return to space, this kind of existential ciphering is irresistible. The country is now further in time from Glenn's first trip into orbit, for example, than Glenn's first trip into orbit was from Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic. A man who was Glenn's current age when Glenn was born would himself have been 17 years old when the Civil War began. Then too, there are the people who saw Glenn's first flight who either will or won't be here for the second. Khrushchev, Kennedy, Johnson, Mao Zedong--all towering figures...
...attraction isn't only that it's a person out there; it's the aloneness. The person is always alone; no matter if he really is alone or not. He is Columbus, Lindbergh and Glenn in his original three-orbit flight. After the Friendship 7 flight in 1962, Glenn said it for everyone: "Now we can get rid of some of that automatic equipment and let man take over...
...cloners also send the animals before us. First, last year, came the single sheep Dolly. Now the 50 mice. First the individual, then the horde. Charles Lindbergh crossed dangerous virgin atmosphere to get over the Atlantic to Paris in 1927; that same air is now dense with flying auditoriums of people...
...Scott Berg, author of an upcoming biography of Charles Lindbergh: "[The index of a good biography] provides a glimpse of the surrounding characters you will meet. Because I've been fortunate enough to befriend some fascinating people, I'd be happy to be a biographee--but not while my index is still growing...
What Col. Lindbergh should have said is, "We must be as impersonal as the professional mourner, who doesn't lament the seriousness of the plague, or the number of fatalities, as long as it helps his own business." ROBERT E. SHERWOOD The Playwrights' Company New York City...