Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...missionary parents. He joined the Foreign Service in 1931, served largely in the Orient and advised General Joseph ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell in Chungking during World War II. There, he criticized Chiang Kai-shek for battling Mao Tse-tung's Communists more ardently than their common enemy, the invading Japanese armies. That stand cost Davies his job. In 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy named him as part of a group that "did so much toward delivering our Chinese friends into Communist hands...
...five New Yorks. Mobility has scattered families and eroded the continuities that once cemented local loyalties. Great organizations are now society's principal units. Knowledge is the key economic resource. Innovation seems to be salvation. So swift is the pace of modern change that, in terms of common experience, America has a new generation every five years...
...books. A Negro votes in the Senate; another sits on the Supreme Court; until this week, a third sat in the President's Cabinet. Black mayors govern Cleveland and Gary, Ind., while in the South, nearly 400 serve in all kinds of elective offices. Black faces are now common in TV commercials and magazine ads; some corporations prize black executives as highly as computers. Proportionally, there are far more blacks in good jobs today than there were eight years ago. By almost any statistical index, the U.S. would seem to be headed in the right direction...
...would be ironic, though common in human experience, if things had to get much worse before Americans finally decided that strife had gone too far. What seems hopeful, however, is that Americans are already drawn, more than in the past, to Royce's vision of community and an end to the dehumanizing aspects of technological society. "A sense of community is not the only good," concludes a new study of U.S. life prepared under outgoing HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen. "But, as the present divisions in our society reveal, it is very much worth asking whether we have as much...