Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...properly. Aquarius, the lunar module that had served as savior instead of explorer, unzipped easily. The command unit Odyssey touched down within four miles of the U.S.S. Iwo Jima. Helicopter recovery ticked along as if automated. Soon Lovell, Haise and Swigert were on the carrier's flight deck, hearing Rear Admiral Donald Davis say, "We're glad you made it, boys." The ship's chaplain said a prayer of thanksgiving, and the three astronauts joined him. In Houston, Marilyn Lovell touched the universal mood when she said: "It was beautiful...
...three-tiered staircase flanked on both sides by formal plazas and a serried row of fountains set in reflecting pools. More controversial is his plan to replace Hunt's grand staircase inside with two escalators and a passageway in order to increase the flow of traffic to the rear galleries. "There will be a lot of screaming and yelling and nostalgia and recriminations," says Director Hoving, "but we need to get people back to those galleries. Go down to the porcelain galleries on the museum's lower level on any crowded day, and I'll guarantee...
...marchers in the front shouted, "Join Us," those in the rear had been quietly disappearing, filtering into MTA stations and side streets, perhaps intimidated by the five police wagons which were following quietly behind. When the march reached Kenmore Square, there had been about 309 people left, surrounded now by police cars which had rushed north in southbound lanes and lurched over the grassy medians to be in position to move...
Other plays have shown the depth of Negro travail. Lonnie Elder Ill's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men focuses on a pitiably poor father who tries to rear his sons in honesty only to find that the survival value of honesty in his situation is very low. In Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody, a savvy young man who idolizes an ex-con man tries to form his own black Mafia and dies in the attempt...
Elsewhere, notably Washington, Detroit and Chicago, black artists have also taken to walls. "People decorate the street because that's where their life is," says Artist Don McIlvaine, whose Into the Mainstream enlivens the rear wall of a store in Chicago's Lawndale ghetto. On The Wall of Respect, at the corner of 43rd St. and Langley Ave. in a desperately depressed part of Chicago's South Side, new scenes are frequently added to reflect changes in ghetto feelings. Originally it was dominated by athletes, peaceful marchers and popular heroes, including Malcolm X and Martin Luther King...