Word: beating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussing Nixon's chances for re-election in 1972, however, Humphrey put aside his professorial mien and became the partisan politician. "If the war is over," he said, "if some foreign policy solutions have been found, if inflation is rolled back, Nixon might be very difficult to beat." Humphrey made it clear that he expects no such miracle: "Nixon is coasting. He is in trouble. He is taking aspirin for relief when he should be taking something stronger for a cure. A President needs long-range vision, not a daily balance sheet." Hubert Humphrey's vision is clearly...
...live audiences-limiting him to records, movies, one TV special and no interviews. Now is the time, the Colonel senses, for the comeback bid. Teen-agers seem to be tiring of bloodless electronic experimentation and intellectualism, and may be ready to discover for themselves the simplistic, hard-driving Big Beat-as the '50s generation discovered it after the cool complexities of bop and progressive jazz...
Whether the Big Beat is really back, or just filling in the decibels until the next musical mode comes along, many of the stars of 15 years ago are getting into the money again. A few of them...
...that considerable uncertainty about the future course of the economy is necessary to erase the nation's deep-seated inflationary psychology. As long as people persist in believing that economic growth is perpetual and price rises are inevitable, they will continue to buy and borrow in order to beat still further increases. Once people begin to doubt that "good times" will last forever, the theory goes, then everyone will become more cautious in his buying decisions, demand will slow down-and prices will taper off. This effort to conquer euphoria has at last succeeded in an area...
...anguished protest poem Howl ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness . . .") set the stage for the Beat scene. Since then, often unwashed yet somehow steeped in cleansing waves of culture, sometimes naked but never far removed from the whole cloth of bohemian and Brahman tradition, Allen Ginsberg has gained celebrity not only as a poet but as a practicing pansexualist and pioneer in psychedelia. He has also preached all manner of revolutionary activities that could lead to the overthrow of what he considers society's "hallucination" regarding money and power...