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Word: pointings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that critical point, Armstrong, a 39-year-old civilian with 23 years of experience at flying everything from Ford tri-motors to experimental X-15 rocket planes, took decisive action. The automatic landing system was taking Eagle down into a football-field-size crater littered with rocks and boulders, Armstrong explained: "It required a manual takeover on the P-66 [a semiautomatic computer program] and flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area." The crisis emphasized the value of manned flight. Had Eagle continued on its computer-guided course, it might well have crashed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: A GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...like Silence, offers only what it offers in the beginning: skillful but schematic juxtapositions of crudity and tenderness, aspiration and loss, memory and desire. Their meaning may be clear, but when they are left undeveloped and unresolved, such juxtapositions are all workmanship and no play. The audience gets the point-but it gets very little else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: The Latest Pinters: Less Is Less | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...virtually all the great composers. But his deepest dedication was to Beethoven, whose sonatas he played with great clarity of style and breadth of emotion. He gave his last concert in Ossiach, Austria, just a week before his death, and though the frail old man nearly fainted at one point, he continued to play. "Music," he told friends afterwards, "has always been my best therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 18, 1969 | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...These new movements are around and they're doing their job," Ahern said. To prove his point, he cited Gus Hall, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, as saying "We've got a good thing going...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Joe McCarthy Legacy Is Still Alive in Mass. | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...AFTERNOON in snatchland wasn't a total loss. I learned two new positions. Which brings us precisely to the point. As long as pornography must masquerade as art and display redeeming social value it will not be able to do what it can do best. What good pornography can do best besides titillate, is educates. As long as public schools refuse to instruct people visually in the arts of sex. Pornographic films will perform a vital function of introducing people to the appearance and interesting use of sexual organs...

Author: By Jim Frosch, | Title: I Am Curious (Yellow) | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

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