Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moon-Shakespeare epitomizes this wondrous feat in those famous lines from Hamlet: "What a piece of work is a man! . . . how infinite in faculty ... in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like...
...Walking on the moon seems pretty important to us right now. We had to do it, of course. But for quite a while, most of us have known, deep down inside, that man is universal-eternal, too. Finally we have a little physical evidence...
THEN, THERE was also the phenomenon--surely not considered by the Houston crews and the television networks--that in most respects imagination has already pre-empted actuality. The first live views of the moon looked suspiciously like the bits of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 that ended up on the cutting room floor. So, for most of the Huck Finns of this generation, it was quite easy to say "We've been there before...
...MOON, which has sulked behind a heavy corner of clouds quite a bit lately, finally rose the other night. As late summer moons often do, it hung heavy and red just above the horizon. But, since the days of the good, impressionistic sentence are over, it is difficult to assign any particular emotion to the event. For, in a very real sense, the particular sphere in question has become just another suburb, and like Wellesley or Westchester or Chevy Chase, it is there, separated from us only by the difficulties of transportation...
Even the actual flight has its deflating aspects. Interest in the current moon shot developed slowly. After all, ten Apollos preceded this week's try: if Columbus had made a half dozen preliminary Atlantic crossing before finally deciding top get off the boat, the Situation would have been somewhat analogous...