Word: refashioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committed action as can destroy the deforming boundaries of our lines. So, action and thought require each other, inform each other, and complete each other, and the obligation imposed on the intellectual, as it is imposed on any man, is not merely to speak against the world, but to refashion...
Vostok was not an unmanned satellite-impersonal, cold, emotionally empty. It had carried an ordinary man soaring across the face of the heavens, and mankind's imagination had soared with him. Scientists could talk with new assurance about a whole new series of technological achievements that might refashion the world of the future: manned satellites watching and perhaps controlling the weather, guiding ships and airplanes, acting as communication relay stations, providing a drastic change of environment for people with diseases that cannot be cured on earth. Military men conjured up orbiting space fleets, bristling with giant nuclear missiles capable...