Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel so sorry for this younger generation," says its author. "They've got this silly guilt. They've been told that they're not contributing to the world if they relax into their normal ocean of domesticity. If you're not a great artist or writer, you shouldn't be made to feel guilty by having to be somebody besides a housewife. These girls are in school, and they're the queens of the world. Then they get married, and they have problems, and they say it's not fair. Self-pity...
Moments later, White was back inside-tired but safe and elated as Gemini 4 sped through the black night over the eastern Atlantic Ocean...
Technology has a way of re-enacting poetry. West Germany is currently considering a network of Autobahnen im Dunkeln, or highways in the dark: huge subterranean pipelines that will carry industrial waste and scrap to the coast, dump them into the ocean and form new land. "Under green fields, under our feet," writes an awed British journalist, "the thick current of Germany's yesterday will creep endlessly down to the sea." The scheme is symbolic of contemporary Germany; for 20 years, its people have sought to eliminate the rubbish of their past and build anew...
...isolated office that he keeps on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard, still others at an office in his Fullerton head quarters, a glass, stone and aluminum building designed for Hunt by Architect William Pereira. On weekends he and his wife frequently move north to a sprawling house by the Pacific Ocean at Lido Isle, and at least one week a month Simon travels to the East Coast to attend board meetings and see to new business...
...discover that Mr. Lippmann consistently opposed American aid to China in its life-and-death defense against Japanese aggression, insisted that the United States' vital interests were confined to the Atlantic, and warned that, under no circumstances should this country allow itself to become embroiled in a "two-ocean" war, which it could not possibly win. Despite his Olympian stance, pontifical self-assurance, and popular prestige, history is likely to judge Walter Lippmann, as a prophet, to have been more gravely mistaken more often on more major issues than any other leading commentator...