Blue Sky Tribe
Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace is a 1997 memoir by David Beers. In addition to chronicling growing up in a family involved in the California aerospace industry of the 1960s, it also explores similarities and differences between the military-industrial command economies of the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War.
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“I think I noticed once
T’was morning one sole street-lamp still bright-lit,
Which, with a senile grin, like an old dunce,
Vied the blue sky, and tried to rival it....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
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—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 16:2,3.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)