Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revolution is the stuff of which headlines are made. Yet the most significant one in today's world--what Chester Bowles has aptly termed "the revolution of rising expectations"--is taking place virtually unnoticed by the American public...
...summer spent in Nigeria convinces me that it is time for a change in this American attitude, or lack of it. Nigeria is a good case of an underdeveloped country with rising expectations; with a population of 35 million, fairly plentiful natural resources, a rich cultural heritage, and prospects for independence two years hence, it is certain to become a leader in an increasingly influential Africa...
Buck, a noted historian, has been director of the University Library since 1955. While holding this position, he has continued teaching and doing research in American history...
Buck is currently teaching History 165, the History of the South. He is also chairman of the Center for the Comparative Study of the History of American Liberty...
These are the deeply felt convictions of Pitirim A. Sorokin, director of the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism, and one of the most widely read social scientists alive today. The author of more than thirty books, including Social and Cultural Dynamics, The American Sex Revolution, and The Crisis of Our Age, Sorokin's dire predictions are read in twenty languages, and the body of commentary on his work is staggering...