Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretenses and included "brain-washing." They all felt themselves losing their ability to objectively analyze the movement as they became more deeply involved in it. And they all soon realized that other members of the Unification Church, and other so-called "Moonies," would willingly die for Rev. Sun Myung Moon...
...Moonies aren't quite my cup of tea--in fact, I dislike Rev. Moon, their leader--but they have a right to recruit and propagate. And the Lampoon is surely not high on my reading list but they should be free to shape their own humor without apology to anybody. And anyway the militants among black students ought to take the massive problems of blacks more seriously than to waste sweat and energy over a silly cartoon of black boy shining John Harvard's shoes. I am surprised that their leader, Tony Chase, has lost perspective in these matters...
...conducting a seminar for drama students at the Loeb, has come to Harvard as part of the Learning From Performers program of the Office of the Arts. Since his arrival on Tuesday, he has held several theater workshops, and has worked with students on a West Indian play. "Moon on a Rainbow Shoal," which is scheduled for a spring production at Leverett House...
...wind-blown ships. In The True History, a tale written in the 2nd century A.D. by the satirist and onetime lawyer, Lucian of Samosata, a ship with a 50-man crew is caught in an Atlantic storm, carried aloft and sent, sail billowing, on a journey to the moon. Later storytellers launched ships with sails on even more fanciful space trips. But none of these fictional voyages was as remarkable as the mission now being planned for NASA by scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. If all goes well, they will launch an unmanned spacecraft guided with...
...atomic bomb. Yet the most extreme expression of the nation's continued reverence for science and technology-dramatized in the tendency to call products "wonders" (as in drugs) or "miracles" (as in fabrics) or "magic" (as in electronics)-awaited the moment that a human foot first touched the moon. That feat, the President of the U.S. assured his countrymen, was to be ranked as the greatest thing since -Creation. After that exaltation, there was only one way, by the law of psychological gravity, for Sci-Tech's prestige...