Word: adds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After citing these energetic in-the-family examples of the exercise era, we hasten to add that some-well, many-of our staff are quite remote from this enthusiastic level. A number are in a category with Essay Reporter George Taber, a sometime exerciser whose weekend effort now consists of lifting the Sunday New York Times. Others are on a par with (but few as lucky as) the Bonn bureau's lean Burton Pines, who says, "Eating hard-frozen chocolate ice cream is all the exercise I get-and that's all I need." At any rate...
...book did more than add a colorful catch phrase to the language. With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector?housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare?it established clear guideposts for both the New Frontier and the Great Society. Galbraith offered the best summation of its philosophy when he testified against tax reduction before a congressional committee in 1965. "I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend," he said, "if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted...
...demobilization of soldiers who have completed their military service will be stopped, and veterans mustered out will be recalled to active service. The measures would add some 65,000 men to the 650,000-man ARVN. Thieu also announced that the nation's taxes would be raised...
...advertising business has never been known for its serenity. Faces in the front offices change with nervous rapidity. But now not even a white tornado could add much pace to the turnovers within the industry. Eager to cash in on the so-called "new creativity," new agencies have been springing up with all the speed and spiel-and sometimes the life-span-of TV spot commercials. In the wake of the new demand for ever more artful, imaginative copy, "creative" men are climbing into the top salary brackets. "The lunatics have taken over the asylum," says Jack Roberts...
Psychic "opening up," Lifton concludes, becomes in itself a treasured experience. This is the goal of numerous emotional experiments in contemporary life-including the use of psychedelic drugs. Lifton is quick to add, however, that these drugs can produce their own brand of psychic numbing...