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...patterns that provoke the answers people give him. His general theory is that the baby-boom generation is about to take over America, and that it doesn't believe in all the moral and working codes its predecessors did. Therefore, when the younger generations takes charge, the country will drift leftward and somehow deal with economic and population problems in ways that reflect a lessening of concern with money and status. Young people are the key to all this and hence anyone under 30 achieves oracular status in Dateline: America...
...growing worry in Washington is that President Nixon, to ease his own crisis, is allowing his Secretary of State to drift into the Watergate mess, a situation that would bring Kissinger's resignation if it impaired his effectiveness. But even that problem has not yet dampened Kissinger's special style...
...created," says Chief U.S. Scientist James Heirtzler of Woods Hole. According to the revolutionary new view of geology called "plate tectonics," the earth's outer shell consists not of a single solid mass but of half a dozen or so giant plates on top of which the continents drift like extremely slow-moving ice floes. It was the gradual outpouring of lava from deep within the earth's mantle along the mid-Atlantic rift valley that began to split North America from Europe, Africa and South America some 225 million years ago. Even now, as fresh material attaches...
...lack of rhythm also detracts from and sometimes interferes with an objective reading of the book. Her lines don't flow smoothly and lump together like coagulated oatmeal. "Five seagulls, circumflex accents, drift by." She displays a penchant for using formalistic inversions which add nothing but stiffness to the line: "that five-petaled sun/folds all its fruited segments out..." Spivack tends to generalize about the whole human race, instead of speaking from her own personal experience and leaving it at that...
Worst of all, board members can see no quick way out of the economic morass. As Washington rivets its attention on impeachment proceedings, says Robert Nathan, "the impossibility of getting anything out of the Executive Branch of the Government at this time means we are just going to drift." Banker Beryl Sprinkel urges the Government to "keep our [fiscal and monetary] policy reasonably tight, settle for 5% or 5.5% unemployment, and then the rate of inflation could drift down"-over the next three to five years. Okun sees only one quick way of stopping inflation: "Panic-a real shake...