Word: promethean
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...perceive a "fundamental transformation in the human condition"-for none such has ever occurred-but rather made such a transformation his Promethean goal...
...seemed to Christopher Columbus in 1500. In the closing days of 1968, all mankind could exult in the vision of a new universe. For all its upheavals and frustrations, the year would be remembered to the end of time for the dazzling skills and Promethean daring that sent mortals around the moon. It would be celebrated as the year in which men saw at first hand their little earth entire, a remote, blue-brown sphere hovering like a migrant bird in the hostile night of space...
...himself, Hahn was no friend of the regime. Throughout World War II, he was left undisturbed at his work, exploring radioactive isotopes. In the U.S., where scientists assumed that the Germans were following up his atom-splitting success, the race was on to achieve fission on a more Promethean scale. In 1945, after Germany's defeat, the results were displayed at Hiroshima...
...Dear God, I wished on a star two times but nothing happened. Now what? [Signed] Anna." The question, delivered with all the Promethean imperiousness of a six-year-old, is from More Children's Letters to God (Simon & Schuster), the second of two phenomenally successful compilations of juvenile missives addressed to the deity. Compiled by a pair of veteran writers of children's books, Eric Marshall and Stuart Hample, Children's Letters to God was published last year, has so far sold 340,000 copies. More Letters, only eleven weeks in print, has already reached...
...Numbers, concepts, labels could not prevail against modern guns and machines. So long unshaken in its sense of superiority, China in the last years of the Manchu rule suffered military defeat and economic exploitation. A social order based on harmony with nature was shattered by the West's promethean energy. Suddenly, it was devastatingly clear that the Middle Kingdom was not really at the center of the universe...