Word: feared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Dream become the American damnation, a formula for selfishness rather than equality and excellence? British Historian Sir Denis Brogan flatly states: "This is not going to be the American century. Very few people are enamored of the American way of life." Arthur Krock expresses a visceral fear that "the tenure of the United States as the first power in the world may be one of the briefest in history...
...will for what? In a series of legislative acts affirming the equality of races, Congress declared the nation's objective to be the achievement of a biracial society. The greatest obstacle to that goal is the tense mood of fear, mistrust and hatred that corrodes race relations. Although a majority of blacks still subscribes to the ideal of integration, the increasingly vocal militants preach an American apartheid that would ultimately isolate Negroes from the mainstream of American life (see box p. 23). That such a solution would not only be accepted but welcomed by a great many whites...
...approaches to white blues-playing, one is at a loss to understand where the blues style of Pacific Gas & Electric (another West Coast group at the Festival), with its amorphous bag of drum solos, wanton guitar effects and indifferent singing, fits in. I suspect it doesn't and I fear again that this is a malady common to too many American groups, born of half-assimilated influences from jazz and Cream...
...time funds drained out of lending institutions at such a rate was just before the crisis that bankers call the "1966 credit crunch." Bond prices crashed, the Dow-Jones average plunged 18%, and mortgage money grew so scarce that housing starts fell to a postwar low. Though some pessimists fear that all this could happen again, the banks have considerably more cash on hand in 1969 than in 1966. The Federal Reserve is also using its monetary weapons with more finesse...
Metrical Carnage. Hurled from Pope's mouth, words were sticks and stones, and they hurt. In An Essay on Criticism, Pope skewered critics as those in whom "a little learning is a dangerous thing," and cautioned them in yet another unforgettable line: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread." In The Rape of the Lock, he betrayed a loving scorn of women-and their suitors, himself included...