Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headline-making call to arms that would include activating reserve units, along with a dramatic presidential presentation to a joint session of Congress, was the fourth possibility. For several days this approach (dubbed by White House aides the "Fire in the Sky" plan) was the one favored by the President and most of his advisers. But the President had misgivings. He feared that such action might cause the Soviet Union to misunderstand the limited nature of the U.S. aims in Viet Nam. "I think more wars are started through conveying wrong intentions than any other way," he said. Time...
...first photo reconnaissance of Mars, the ambitions of the scientists and engineers at the San Francisco meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics seemed modest indeed. Topic "A" was the civilization of near-space-the techniques by which astronauts may live and work in the neighboring sky this side of the moon...
...full of meddlesome life." Styling himself "one of the ants," Bergman concluded grimly: "The artist lives exactly like every other living creature that only exists for its own sake. This makes a rather numerous brotherhood living together egotistically on the hot, dirty earth under a cold and empty sky." Needless to say, Bergman's next movie, Persona, will not be a knee-slapping comedy...
...average citizen into a creator." Imagining that all the house painters of his native town were repressed artists, he spurred them on to decorating its drab buildings with folk imagery. When his superiors arrived from Moscow to find the walls covered with Chagallesque cows sailing through the sky instead of the standard portraits of Marx and Lenin, Chagall discovered belatedly that the Communists wanted art to be as pragmatic as a tractor. Everything rained on his parade; when he decked out the town with 50,000 ft. of patriotic red bunting, Izvestia wondered sarcastically how many much-needed suits...
...Vitebsk burns, a ship sinks, a ladder is half-posed to remove Christ from the Cross. In his Falling Angel, begun in 1923 and not finished until 1947, the whole world violently disintegrates, with a rabbi fleeing with the Torah and an angel hemorrhaging down through a tempest-torn sky...