Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exist today." After leaving the mystified reporters, the mayor returned to a basement conference room in his executive mansion to brief city officials on the new system. And what had he asked the city officials to do? a reporter inquired. One of the officials gave a brief answer: "Pray...
...what sort of liberation? The question was put poignantly by a U.S. nun who asked in one group discussion, "Do we have to opt for revolution?" The theologians' answer is yes-although they hasten to add that revolution covers a broad range of options, not all of them violent. Jesuit John Coleman of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union says that there are elements of selflessness and idealism in the U.S. tradition that could be used to inspire Americans to "fight for structural reforms [that] most would call revolutions." But the blacks, feminists, Chicanos, American Indians and other North...
...judge by such tangible measurements as health, the best of times for most people would thus he within the lifetime of people living today-that is, sometime during the 20th century. But when precisely? Here the answer becomes more subjective, a parlor game in which anyone is entitled to his own answer, so long as he remembers that the criterion is not just when his own fortunes or his own prospects were most favorable. In their own lives people are apt to choose, in retrospect, their young adult years. Perhaps this is why some people even fondly remember the Great...
...think they are, and laid the blame for widespread discontent on an increasing "psychology of entitlement" (college education for the kids, a satisfying job for oneself). So if-despite electric dishwashers to replace poorly paid domestics, and second cars and second homes for millions-people are still dissatisfied, the answer is that history records no instance of a people made happier by the knowledge that they are part of a comforting statistic...
...final answer to the question does involve large-scale subjectivity. Many people once thought of themselves as living in a country that was generally right, even though their own circumstances could stand improvement, which would come about by their own efforts. Today it is the widespread doubt about the country itself-its political structure, its place in the world, its present drift-that most mocks the "Smile" buttons. The matter with our times is not so much a question of impossibilities but of complexities that can be faced if only public trust and will are restored...