Word: existant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reducing the Rate. The answer to the question of why babies die is that the techniques and knowledge that exist are simply not used in many cases. Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, the new head of pediatrics at Montreal's McGill University, said that the application of knowledge that is now available would reduce the infant-mortality rate in America by 50%. That would give the U.S. the lowest rate of any major nation. It now ranks 14th, behind New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Scandinavia and most other countries of Western Europe...
...Susan Sontag did not exist, the New York Review of Books might have had to invent her. One moment, in fact, not very long ago she did not exist. The next moment she was everywhere-the new darling of the literary set. Norman Podhoretz, author of Making It, Commentary editor and close student of cultural chic, explained the Sontag phenomenon this way: When Mary McCarthy arrived at "the more dignified status of Grande Dame," she left a vacancy as "Dark Lady of American Letters." With a timing she herself would be the first to appreciate, Miss Sontag appeared...
...solutions, but there were no problems. Today we've got the problems." Even where the problems are now resolutely faced, he claims, they are often approached from the wrong direction. He contends that too often equipment is manufactured today for a person who, in his opinion, does not exist: the average man. The human frame comes in a dismaying range of sizes and configurations, and industry must reach at least a reasonable compromise with this unavoidable fact...
Western commentators have professed to see International Communism in decline. But it is a practicing Communist who has now delivered the most emphatic judgment to date. "Communism no longer exists," writes Milovan Djilas in his latest book, The Unperfect Society. "Only national Communisms exist, each different in doctrine and in the policies practiced and in the actual state of affairs they have created...
...first has to do with the mentality of a military establishment. It is a truism that soldiers exist to fight--and win--wars. Major "conventional" conflicts are unlikely, if only because they would quickly become nuclear once any party thought it was losing, the U.S. is inept at combating guerrilla units, and major nuclear was is, at the moment, strategically unacceptable. There just don't seem to be any kinds of wars the U.S. can win anymore. The obvious question becomes: What do we need soldiers for? or, at least, what do we need so many soldiers and weapons...