Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words were inspiring but many a qualified scientist, even as he heard them, was moved to a vague unease. How could so rigid a time limit be set for so awesome a task? Still, the Russians had just put a man in orbit, and the disaster at the Bay of Pigs was embarrassingly fresh. A confident U.S. gesture seemed demanded by U.S. pride. "Three or four years ago, we had considerable worries about the Russians," remembers one space scientist. "Picking the man-on-the-moon program was a good choice. If we had settled for a lesser goal, they might...
...Kennedy's offer cannot yet be determined. At the very least, it may take some of the tenseness out of the race. The U.S. may change its pace; it may begin to make haste toward the moon in a more orderly and economical style. Says one frank space scientist: "This winning stuff, this getting there first, has lost its edge. The grandstands are emptying. Now the time has come to ask who did the most sophisticated thing. Not who went to Africa first, but who picked up the diamonds...
...President's two-year-old decision to shoot for the moon marked a mile stone on the U.S. road into space. "That decision," says a high-ranking Government scientist, "was part of the rebuilding of our national posture. If we had to make it again, most of us would do it." But the President's offer to the Russians changed that posture and canceled all previous assumptions. Now the whole program is up for scrutiny...
...animal-like man was tearing away at a hunk of meat. Suddenly Ghoulardi's head popped into the picture, saying, "Cool it. Don't eat that stuff. I'll take you around the corner and get you a good pizza." Zow. In another film, a mad scientist had turned a group of people into micromidgets. "What do you want?" said the scientist to the grumbling group. Ghoulardi, superimposed in miniature, raised his hand and said, "The men's room...
...integral method," no minor poet or scientist is dismissed as irrelevant in presenting the age in "total perspective." Yet perspective is exactly what Durant lacks. Thus he can declare that "the greatest Italian painters were now in Naples, everything flourished-music, art, literature, politics, drama, hunger, murder, and always the gay, furious, melodious pursuit of feminine curves by agitated men." But he never seems aware that the "great" Neapolitan painters were at best secondary talents, and that the true center of painting had shifted elsewhere-to The Nether lands and France...