Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Space Age, Aldous Huxley, one of its prophets, has sent a message: "Have second thoughts, will not travel...
...miles a minute will require an air cocoon of 6,000 square miles 2,000 ft. deep for safety. Jets will reach heights formerly monopolized by military planes, will need precise traffic controls to keep them on their separate ways. Last summer Congress belatedly created a new jet-age federal agency, the Federal Aviation Agency, which will supplant the old Civil Aeronautics Administration on Jan. 1, take over safety-regulations functions from the Civil Aeronautics Board. Headed by Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, retired Air Force lieutenant general, the new agency will control both military and commercial jet movements...
Shifting IQs. Periodic intelligence testing gave parents of dull children the hope that their dimwitted offspring would blossom late; and tests taken throughout life ensured that when IQ went up-or down -jobs changed accordingly. Mere age, of course, commands no respect in a meritocracy; as IQ dips in the fifth or sixth decade of life, Young writes, "the managing director had to become an office mechanic . . . the professor an assistant in the library. There have been judges who have become taxi drivers, bishops curates, and publishers writers...
...advantages of man's mastery of space, Huxley has this to say: "All our exuberant post-Sputnik talk is irrelevant and even nonsensical. So far as the masses of mankind are concerned, the coming time will not be the Space Age; it will be the Age of Over-population." In a parody of the old song, Huxley asks...
...life, but forgets that men do not necessarily believe what is useful. Huxley's plan, apart from his perfect pill, seems to involve cooperative communities, birth control and freedom. Sound as some of this may be, the depraved old world is unlikely to heed. And the thought of aging (64) Aldous-an intellectual well past average breeding age-proffering a prophylactic to the teeming East is downright funny. Reactionaries will continue to listen to Singing Theologicals and hope against Stopes...