Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words to President Nixon in Los Angeles last week seemed all the more eloquent because they were unstudied, and because for once the usually phlegmatic voice of the first man on the moon quavered with emotion. His fellow astronauts were equally moved by the climax of their triumphant daylong sweep across the entire U.S. Mike Collins declared himself "proud to be an inhabitant of this most magnificent planet." Said Buzz Aldrin: "This is an honor to all Americans who believed, who persevered with us. We can do what we will and must and want...
...have been seen by outsiders are pale, as if they were never allowed out in the sun. There is not much work or exercise. When Captain Rumble was asked how the prisoners fought boredom, he replied: "We were allowed to sweep the grounds." Then he added hesitantly: "We ate two meals ... we smoked cigarettes ... we were allowed to listen to the Voice of Viet Nam"-English-language broadcasts from Hanoi...
...such a project would cost perhaps $60 billion, prefer less expensive unmanned probes beyond Mars. Last week 23 space scientists strongly urged "grand tours" of the outer planets in the mid-1970s. At that time, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto will be so aligned that a spacecraft could sweep past at least three of them in a single, multibillion-mile journey. This rare planetary configuration, the panel noted, will not occur again for another 179 years...
...staging-revolving globes, electronic music, atoms whirling on projection screens-deftly captures the sweep and playfulness of Shaw's vision in the early parts. As the play draws on, however, the production stretches a bit thin. By the time the curtain rises on the dancing children of the 320th century, in Part 5, it appears that evolution has led to a Swedish gym class in a grove of neon tubes...
Wells had flair-an irresistible sweep and bounce. He was a missionary who liked to begin and end sentences with "... if the Race is to be saved." He had, as Dickson points out, "the passionate urge to simplify, to convert." Only one thing was lacking: he didn't care much for people. His vision of the future always reduced itself to an elite world with H. G. Wells in charge...