Word: senting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...hour despite the holiday. After a Christmas dinner, Bucher read a message from the families of Apollo 8's astronauts: "Your reunion has brought great joy into our hearts this Christmas Day." The Pueblo crew members reciprocated. After the space capsule's successful splashdown, they sent the three astronauts a telegram reading: "Although we 82 tried to monopolize the headlines, you three were just too much. We gladly relinquish the limelight...
...statement, which will be sent to Pope Paul for his consideration, was signed by some of the most respected theological minds of Roman Catholicism. They included Switzerland's Hans Kung, the Dominicans' Edward Schillebeeckx of Holland and Yves Congar of France, German Jesuit Karl Rahner and American Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie. "In genuine, complete and unambiguous loyalty to the church," began the statement, which was drafted by Kung and German Jesuit Johannes Neumann, "the undersigned theologians feel compelled to point out publicly that the freedom of theologians in the service of the church, regained by the Second...
...live ($1.50) and the 1964 Clay-Liston fight ($3). That drew 63% of the clientele. There have been other signs of pay-TV appeal. Patients at a Hartford old folks' hospital who got their service free were so enthusiastic that they made a bed-to-bed collection and sent the proceeds to the station...
When Andy Warhol sent an impostor to represent him on a lecture tour eleven months ago, he was offering the public another medium of pop art. The deception was not essentially different from producing soup cans and Brillo boxes in wood and paint. Pop art is premised, after all, on the belief that the surfaces of things are what really matter, or that, as Oscar Wilde wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray: "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible...