Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably have to say something like "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." But there is nothing in Fred Howard's biography to suggest that either of these Dayton bicycle mechanics ever had such a grandiose notion. The bachelor sons of Bishop Milton Wright lived in a circumscribed world of nuts and bolts. They took care of business, and by trial and error they slowly realized their dream of flight on the sands of the Outer Banks and over Huffman Prairie, a half-mile-long field on the Dayton-Springfield trolley line...
...litigations were complex and inconclusive. They also slowed the progress of aviation. Wilbur and Orville makes its way bravely through the fogs of legal and commercial arrangements. The author is more confident in technical matters and the manner in which aviation fever spread. He provides exhilarating details on the Wrights' daring exploits at flying exhibitions at home and abroad and dismaying information about their vain attempts to get the U.S. Government off the ground. Wilbur died of typhoid fever in 1912. Orville survived him by 36 years, or long enough to see his Flyer evolve into both a bonanza...
Little was said at the meeting about the Salesians, but Robin Wright, an American anthropologist at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, notes that inevitably "the mission structure is being replaced by a new economic structure based on mining." Mission income is declining, and though 130 village elementary schools survive, two of the six boarding schools for advanced students lie abandoned...
...Paul Taylor Dance Company, 18 strong these days, is now presenting a repertory in New York City that demonstrates the vast resources of this protean figure. Soon two young dancers, David Parsons and Douglas Wright, will snip their puppet strings and try to become the Paul Taylors of the '90s. They had better read this book, not only for a preview of the pitfalls ahead, but also for an insight into the nonartistic qualities that just might come in handy: guts, humor and, above all, stamina...
Counsel Thomas H. Wright, who also served assecretary to the trustee presidential searchcommittee. "President Shapiro was the personfocused on right from the beginning...