Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Causes of World War III may not be the most important book of the century, but that is not to say that it shouldn't be. The propositions advanced by C. Wright Mills are so important and most of them seem so obvious that it is surprising that someone did not write this book earlier...
Mills calls the justification for the military establishment the "military metaphysic", and the justification for the preservation of this establishment--"crackpot realism." He has the ax out for the "Power Elite" he described in his earlier book of that name--the intertwined combination of the military, the businessmen, and the politicians. Military and businessmen partake of the "military metaphysic" for reasons of self-interest, claims Mills, for the politicians, it "provides a cover under which they can abdicate the perils of innovative leadership; it provides a cover for their use of military bureaucrats--the only large pool of professional civil...
...youngster who comes to college is an ill-informed, irresponsible, unambitious product of American adolescence. His vision of life rarely goes beyond beer, dates, and perhaps reading a good book. And on this ill-kempt bumpkin depends the future of America. Out of such material we will build IBM machines and a World Bank. Obviously the college must do heroic things...
Thus the law is against prescribing, selling, or advertising contraceptives. Unless a book or periodical advertises a contraceptive, there is no legal reason why it should not be freely circulated...
...Lonely Crowd, Riesman said, falls into the romantic category, placing its emphasis on specific social strata in this country. The book takes the U.S. as the chief exemplar of post-industrial society and seeks to assess the meaning of this situation for individuals and for institutions...