Word: ferments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frightened realists who see beyond '68? Are we really those who "may be guided by lofty ideals but offer no pragmatic programs?" I wonder what was said of the Pilgrims when they came to the New World as idealists, indecisive? Let us be thankful for the "creative ferment...
...Ferment & the Future...
...this ferment translates itself into election results is the yeastiest element of all. Bobby Kennedy, who presents himself as the patent holder of youthful disquiet, found that out last week in Oregon. By virtue of his expertise, diligence and money, and buoyed by a string of primary victories, Kennedy came into Oregon the odds-on favorite. His overconfidence was so manifest that he had come to regard McCarthy as merely a foil for his own continued success. "I'd be in real trouble'" Kennedy told a TIME correspondent after Nebraska "if he got out." And the week before...
...Fermented Porridge. While roaming those uplands, Braidwood found considerable supporting evidence: long-buried mud-hut villages, fossilized remains of cultivated wheat and barley, bones of such domesticated animals as goats and sheep, and clay figurines of fertility goddesses, some voluptuous, others Twiggy-shaped. Of the 50 artifacts in the display, many of the most interesting come from his initial find at Jarmo. a cluster of some 20 simple dwellings in Iraqi Kurdistan that may well be one of the world's original farming communities. The Jarmoites did not leave a recorded history, but there is no doubt about their...
...deeply preoccupied with politics and with social ferment at home. Yet the events in France, with the sudden tottering of that tall, human statue, brought a sense of shock and unease. Admittedly, Charles de Gaulle has done his best to harass and embarrass the U.S. in the world. Yet no French leader of this century could have risen to the time as he did. He was a hero because he seemed to outstare history, reversing trends and forces that had seemed irrevocable. In the decade since the general swept into power, France has been transformed from the sick...