Word: foresights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Living in Filth. New York's lack of foresight is no exception. Most of the major waterways of the world have become cesspools of progress. In medieval Paris, the streets were open sewers, but the Seine flowed so clearly that from the bridges it was possible to see fish swimming among the stones and green plants on the bottom. Today, after an energetic cleanup campaign, the streets are clean, but the Seine is murky and grey, except for the occasional white fluff of detergent suds. Once England's M.P.s fished for salmon in the Thames at Westminster...
...Believing that TIME shows as much courage and foresight in being consistently anti-Communist as in being consistently pro-integration, I applaud much of your realism in the Wessin y Wessin cover story. But I do feel that the inconsistencies in our foreign policy, which did so much to force us into the necessary but tragic intervention, are an essential part of the story. Bosch's downfall certainly stemmed from his incompetence, his failure to fulfill campaign promises, and his softness toward Communists; yet had we intervened then rather than now in support of a freely elected constitutional government...
...anyone imagine a more sincere dedication to the Great Society than a President who had the foresight to become hospitalized when the stock markets were closed for the weekend...
...President was perhaps at his best, and most himself, in his peroration. Said he: "The presidency brings no special gift of prophecy or foresight. You take an oath, step into an office, and must then help guide a great democracy. The answer was waiting for me in the land where I was born. It was once barren land. But men came and worked and endured and built. Today that country is abundant with fruit, cattle, goats and sheep. There are pleasant homes and lakes, and the floods are gone...
Yesterday's $12.5 million grant to Harvard by the Ford Foundation was not a windfall; rather, it is the direct result of President Pusey's unexampled patience and foresight as a fund-raiser. Congratulations are also due the Foundation, which directed its generosity with wisdom. Harvard, though widely respected for its faculty in most of the social sciences, has always been weak in "area studies," particularly in African and Latin American affairs; the Ford money will greatly strengthen these studies...