Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the devaluation of language results from a feeling that somehow it is no longer effective. Samuel Johnson's society pinned its faith on language; Americans attach theirs to technology. It is not words that put men on the moon, that command technology's powerful surprises. Man does not ascend to heaven by prayer, the aspiration of language, but by the complex rockets and computer codes of NASA...
...Tours. A less arduous expedition offered by Wien Air Alaska flies vacationers to Katmai and its Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, an awesome volcanic area where U.S. astronauts trained for moon landings. A three-day outing for $250 combines a stay at Katmai's resort hotel with hikes into a wilderness hundreds of miles from other human habitation. And there are organized dogsled trips: Anchorage's Denali's Dog Tours offers four days from Mount McKinley Park headquarters into Toklat Lake...
...followers of Rev. Moon have several times before used Harvard scholars to draw people to their workshops. In addition to Reischauer, Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government, have spoken before groups of Moon followers...
...Moon is "very much more conservative that I am," Reischauer said. "His political and religious views are quite extreme...
...students at the conference," Reischauer added, "are more openminded than their sponsor, Reverend Moon...