Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with that other genius, Aristophanes. It was a thrilling experience to watch, during rehearsals, these two giants of humor and hilarity fight against each other for predominance-striking at each other with totally different weapons of method, language, mentality, even decency-to establish a comic point that was, fundamentally, common to them both...
...book The American Challenge describes the problem and has become a runaway bestseller on the Continent, prophesies: "The third industrial power, after the U.S. and the Soviet Union, could easily be in 15 years not Europe but American industry in Europe. Even today, in the ninth year of the Common Market, the organization of this market is essentially American...
...often reluctant to share it. The pace of U.S. research and development stuns and frightens other nations. In the U.S., 700,000 people work at R & D for industry v. 187,000 in next-most-active Japan. U.S. corporations allot $21 billion to research, six times what the Common Market spends. Americans can also be terrifyingly ingenious. Ford, creating Ford Europe, linked engineering centers at Dunton, England, and Cologne to Detroit by telephone cable in order that designers abroad could use the Dearborn computer...
...that of the U.S.: industrial stagnation and rising unemployment coupled with inflationary tendencies. Reason: wages and government spending rose despite economic slowdowns. Germany stopped its spiral of wages and prices, but at the cost of a severe recession that pulled down the pace of business throughout most of the Common Market. Only Italy, which underwent a deflationary purge three years ago, showed strong economic gains without much wage and price strain...
...that, in general, those Negro children who were thrust into the front ranks of the integration crises came through their experiences without serious emotional wounds. In fact, many seemed to gain strength from their awareness of the historical significance of their roles. Acts of courage by ordinary people were common. Coles could find no definite correlation between certain psychological types and civil rights activists. Rather, he feels that it was some interaction between person and situation that determined what form behavior took. What raises Coles's book far above the level of an interesting series of case studies...