Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Resting on four immense ten-story stilts, the new glass-and-aluminum skyscraper is the world's eighth tallest, soaring 915 ft. It is topped by a thrusting 130-ft. wedge angled at 45° to catch sun and moon and every passing eye. Inside, the 59-story building looks as if it might have landed from outer space. Its vital functions are controlled by a battery of electronic mechanisms that, among other things, wash the air and launder the noise of the city with "white sound," an almost imperceptible brrr...
...sure, the President had defenders among the mayors. Said Moon Landrieu of New Orleans: "The Administration gives out good vibes. It's moving as rapidly as possible." Added Tom Bradley of Los Angeles: "The fact that in ten months the world hasn't been turned upside down should not be disappointing. Things don't happen that fast in Washington...
Some sent their regrets. Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Luis Alvarez, for example, explained forthrightly that he could not subscribe to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's exotic mixture of "religion, science, economics and politics." But four other Nobel prizewinners were among the 450 scientists, social scientists and theologians -many of a conservative stripe-who went to San Francisco for a three-day conference on "science and absolute values" sponsored by Moon's Unification Church. After an effusive introduction by Australian-born Neurophysiologist and Nobelman Sir John Eccles, Moon urged his guests, in barely understandable English, to express their beliefs...
...society; technology often does. It has been argued that the developing use of the stirrup, which enabled a rider to carry a lance, created the system of land payments to knights and hence created the entire system of feudalism. Television can draw the world into a single experience - a moon shot, an assassination. McLuhan himself takes a benign view of the televised Sadat visit. "That," he believes, "was the human family sitting down together. It by passed history unexpectedly." Before anyone grows excessively mystical about television, however, it is probably well to remember that a few minutes after the President...
...family--his rebel sister is a Moonie, but the rest, devoutly Catholic and provincial, remain in Southie--Tim says he "found the real world." Stan Feitelberg is his antithetic nemesis, a loose-hanging San Franciscan who gets high and lapses into a desk-pounding imitation of Keith Moon as a diversion from his chemistry reading...