Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first thing you expect is that the actual jumping away from the airplane will be the most terrifying act. It is not. Before you leave, you are crouched on a step almost entirely outside the fuselage of the plane. This experience gives you the feeling of existing as a flying being. You are faced forward into the wind that you are beginning to develop a true understanding for; you expect then, when you step off, to just mingle with it a little further...
...THING you become immediately aware of as soon as you step out and fall is the peculiar relationship you have to the airplane. You want the airplane, you long for the airplane, you almost helplessly pine for the airplane. You want it because it is the last thing you could understand...
...discussion of the status of ROTC at Harvard reveals that many of the existing conditions are the result of the need to conform to certain minimum conditions required by Public Law. The HPC recommends that academic credit for ROTC courses be withdrawn as a first step in a long-term project of analysis, within the Harvard community, of issues involved in the existence of ROTC programs at Harvard. This report has not considered the main financial aspects of ROTC's status nor the political issues involved in ROTC's existence at Harvard. We have directed our attention to educational policy...
...federal regulation requiring two public hearings before any action can be taken on a proposed highway has been published in the Federal Register, the first step toward its enactment, Presently only one public hearing is required...
...Bach Society Orchestra's programming of two of the Opus 6 concerto grossi was a welcome step into the edifice of Handel's creations. The set of twelve concertos comprise the finest English instrumental music written until this century. There can be no doubt that Handel, although born in Saxony and raised on Italian opera, is a thoroughly English composer. He arrived in London during the interregnum left by the death of Purcell in 1695 and the first works of Thomas Arne twenty years later. By 1710 Handel had subsumed into his Italianate idiom the brilliant scoring, deep love...