Word: breathings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombing halt, accompanied possibly by a ceasefire, in the immediate future." Then the thrust: "I am also told that this spurt of activity is a cynical, last-minute attempt by President Johnson to salvage the candidacy of Mr. Humphrey. This I do not believe." Making the accusation in one breath and disavowing it in the next, he made certain that the charge would be noticed...
...Gerald Scarfe offers us a breath of creative originality with his freshness and individuality...
Idyllic Suburb. Those advertisers who have crossed the color line are now confronted with a new problem: how to portray the Negro. Self-conscious to a fault, integrated commercials never show a Negro as a heavy or in a menial position. Nor are blacks ever afflicted with bad breath or body odor. Kool cigarettes, for example, casts a Negro actor as a bright young trial lawyer; Viceroy casts another as a bright young stockbroker. Schaefer beer has a junior executive type who plays hand ball at the club with a white friend, who throws his arm around his shoulder...
...left for good, the young often speak in total disillusionment. "O.K., it's clear. We see how things are," says a 26-year-old Czechoslovak mathematician. "We won't ever go back. The Russians have strangled us." For older people, Dubcek's adventure provided a fresh breath of freedom that was too precious to give up. "You live 20 years in fear of your life, and then it gets better," observes a 50-year-old medical technician who fled to Paris. "You can never go back to what life was like before." Intellectuals face perhaps the most...
Elusive Bliss. Despite such symptoms of strain, Arthur Okun, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, insisted last week: "The economy is moving into improved balance." Yet in almost the next breath, he told a Manhattan meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board: "If ever there is to be a year of bliss for the American economy it will not be 1969." Predicting that consumers will soon slow their heavy buying, Okun forecast a gradual slowdown of economic expansion. Along with that, he said, will come a rise in unemployment, a profit squeeze on business, and continued...