Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE BIGGEST meaning-of-the-moonshot mistake running is to identify it with a new bold-face heading in "history," and sigh. Why, this is just exactly like Columbus traveling to new unexplored continents for the first time, editorialized the New York Times, a source of information we've come...
The true meaning of the moonshot lies in the moment. A given moment is all one can be entirely aware of, can fully experience. During the actual shot, the what would happen was still essentially unknown, a true probe in the imagination; the space capsule could have yoyoed the moon...
Now we know that we could conceivably be standing quietly on the moon staring at the earth or even staring the other way. "History" is intriguing to paw through because of the illusion it creates about cause and effect; it tells us that one event led to this second event...
Graebner opened the Challenge Round in Adelaide, Australia, last week on a chilly, gusty day. Normally as taut as the gut strings in his racket, he played confidently, looking to the sidelines now and then for reassurance from Dell. At every crucial point, Dell leaned forward in his chair and...
Died. Raymond Gram Swing, 81, one of radio's best-known newscasters, whose broadcasts four nights a week during World War II reached an audience of millions around the world; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Tall and gaunt, with a calm, reasoned tone to his speech, Swing...