Word: planet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times in the past four years, I have had difficulty reconciling my comfortable presence at Harvard with the continuing sorrow elsewhere on our planet. I was conscious somewhat of my obligations to the rest of the world, yet I read books and wrote articles while some of our brothers and sisters screamed and died. I strained to keep up my connections with the world outside Harvard; I returned to my Chicago neighborhood to organize with the people I had left behind and to distill some common meaning from the diverging patterns of our lives. Yet I still could not shake...
...people; we can sharpen our senses until suffering in the most remote region in the world becomes as loud and clear as crying next door. And we can fulfill, each in his or her own way, our obligations to each other, and we can start to take back our planet from the murderers and the liars...
...Barely two years after a similar robot began the first detailed mapping of Mars, and only weeks after another peeked at giant Jupiter, a 1,108-lb. ship named Mariner 10 last week cruised by the earth's nearest neighbor, Venus. In the first clear pictures of the planet, Mariner's cameras showed great circular cloud formations, raising the possibility that Venus may have an atmospheric circulation something like the earth...
Forbidden Planet...
...night on the tour, Dylan receives an ovation when he sings the line, "But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked," from It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding). In Dirge, a song from his soon-to-be-released album Planet Waves, his forceful lyrics are an eloquent, melancholy study of an individual searching for a niche in an anonymous society dominated by "progress...