Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a fundamental change in the function of religion. Wright's other-worldly predecessors, in southern churches and in storefronts in northern ghettoes, sought salvation in the God manufactured for the black slave by his master; He who promised "pie in the sky, after you die." Wright and his colleagues do not mince words: the God in which they seek redemption, He whom they rhetorically call upon to help them help themselves, is a God of "power, of majesty, of might...
...anticipation of hearing it, Ringo sings "What would you do if I sang out of tune/ Would you get up and walk out on me?" However, Ringo's main appeal is for a "little help from my friends." This is followed by a fantasy, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which is followed by a shaky hope that after a lousy childhood things are "Getting Better, since you've been mine"; followed by a song about "fixing a hole" to keep out the gloomy rain from a wandering, searching mind; followed by a song about a girl eloping from...
...about the same time, though, the Beatleologists hit a dry vein when they decided that the songtitle "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was an anagram for LSD. The song's author, John Lennon, has explained to the world that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was the title of a drawing his daughter brought home from school, around which he built a song about a little girl's fantasies. The song is simply an updated "Big Rock Candy Mountain" with a very neat accelerate-slowdown effect that gives the impression that you're traveling...
...every sky-gazer knows, only one face of the moon is visible. Terrestrial gravity has locked onto the moon's near side, which always faces the earth. Some scientists have theorized that the hidden side bore many more craters and pockmarks than the visible face. That concept was first shaken by Lunar Orbiter 4, which mapped some 60% of the far side. Last week, Lunar Orbiter 5 knocked the notion completely into a cocked hat while completing...
...sky of grayness--as does the nearby meadow...