Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previous inaugural address, picking as his favorites Lincoln's second inaugural, both of Wilson's, F.D.R.'s first three, the Kennedy speech and?surprisingly?the baroque oratory of Democrat James K. Polk. A favorite Nixon motto is "Forward Together," and Polk in 1845 chose compromise and unity as his basic themes. He deplored "sectional jealousies and heartburnings," entreating the competing factions of his day to "remember that they are members of the same political family, having a common destiny...
...purposely remained in the wings, saying little, digesting masses of reports from 21 study groups on problems ranging from the guaranteed annual wage to the post-Viet Nam economy. Now center stage is unavoidable. Nixon's first official address was an evocation of the striving and optimism that are basic to the American temperament: "We have endured a long night of the American spirit. But as our eyes catch the dimness of the first rays of dawn, let us not curse the remaining dark. Let us gather the light." The new President of the U.S. has that opportunity, and, indeed...
...about three-quarters thought conditions were better than they had been in the early and mid '60s. Even more had hope for the future. They want the same things whites want: decent housing, decent jobs, decent education and the respect that is due any human being. In his basic hopes and fears, the black American is no different at all from the white American. Thus it seems particularly tragic that the idealism that brought whites and blacks together in the early '60s has evaporated. Yet perhaps it was, as the militants now say, a false idealism based...
...nine most seriously stricken provinces, rivers are mere trickles, reservoirs are empty or almost so, and pastureland lies parched. Unfortunately, these are Chile's most populous and most productive areas: they normally provide 52% of the country's wheat and 88% of its beans-both basic Chilean foods...
...Mice. Parapsychology, in fact, is international. In Britain, Mathematician S. G. Soal has long toyed with basic ESP phenomena.* A respected French biologist, who carries out his parapsychological research under the pseudonym "Andrew Robinson" to avoid professional ridicule, recently claimed that his complicated electronic rigs suggest the possibility of communication between men and mice. Even Russia has its psychic expert: Dr. Leonid L. Vasiliev of the University of Leningrad, whose Mysterious Phenomena of the Human Psyche has become a bestseller in the Soviet Union...