Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elections & Flowers. Most important, the new constitution provided for fresh elections. When they were held last September, every seat in the Wolesi Jirga was contested-in some cases by as many as twelve candidates-and 45% of Afghanistan's eligible voters (everybody above 20) turned out. The resulting legislature included the widest array ever of Afghans: from doctors to shepherds, from liberal lawyers to ultra-conservative mullahs (Moslem teachers), as well as four women and six former political prisoners...
...Barry Goldwater, 56, took up their positions as spokesmen for the right, while Michael Harrington, 37, author of The Other America, moved in on the left, and the team of Rowland Evans and Robert Novak took up a position resolutely in the middle. In recent weeks, though, a fresh and eager file of other newspapermen and women, as well as public figures, have decided to try their hands at columns. A sampling...
...challenges. Economically and socially, the U.S. is the world's most mobile nation: capital flows freely from lenders to borrowers, workers shift from job to job, and venturesome entrepreneurs jump quickly up the economic ladder. The changing trends of business, science and demography provide the risktaker with ever fresh chances. Technology's quantum leaps are opening new industries almost every year-transistors, computers, lasers, masers, color TV. The shift of the economy's vast weight from traditional heavy manufacturing into the growth area of services is producing limitless openings for men with ideas. So is the movement...
...music and photography, for all their beauty and aptness, are only corollaries to the script. The author, Archibald MacLeish, wisely insisted that Glazier and Laderman work from it without changes. It is simple and poetic, yet within the eulogistic lyricism, MacLeish offers dozens of fresh insights into the motives and character of Mrs. Roosevelt. He makes her humanity human. And at the end we know the woman, not as a psychiatrist or a political admirer would, but as her friends must have...
...hardly a fresh Wind. The fictionalized treatment of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" was a 1955 play; the 1960 movie version has been run and rerun on television. But despite the script's many previous lives, Schaefer, employing Ed Begley and Melvyn Douglas from the Broadway cast, managed to make this reincarnation seem new and important...