Word: america
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people and weekly newsmagazines keep up this drivel about "national purpose," they may soon have to openly recognize what America really is: not a nation with something resembling a cohesive national philosophy, cultural depth, and direction, but simply a place where one comes to exploit economic opportunities, with about as much "national purpose" as a stock exchange. What America stands for is making money, and as the society approaches affluence its members are left to stew in their own ennui...
...year's rosters, the pro teams were ruled by their own particular manpower requirements, ended up picking some players far down on everyone's lists. But, with surprising unanimity, the pro scouts this year agree on the nation's finest college players. The pros' All-America...
Guard: Mike McGee, 21, Duke; 6 ft. 1 in., 220 lbs. Major: education. "Can outrun any back on the team, and could make All-America at fullback or halfback. May be the best lineman in the South. Might make a linebacker...
Mason, who teaches a course on the problems of underdeveloped nations, pointed out that India and Pakistan both recognize the need for "family planning." Although it would be "very wrong for the United States to press its ideas on other nations," he commented, America should not refuse help if it is requested. President Eisenhower recently rejected this idea...
...America the Vincible couches its philippics in an aphoristic style of baroque density, alliteratively peppered with Peter Piperisms, e.g., "Many myths thus made the marvelous mirage." But its basic message is simple and fervent: the U.S. must think its way through to the right answers, for "our nation lives under no benign dispensation from such tragedy as has tormented and broken empires of past ages...