Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the Suez, the observers provide the Egyptians with a face-saving excuse for not attempting to storm across the canal and make good on their threats to drive the Israelis from occupied Sinai. The Israelis also want the observers to stay, since their departure would symbolize chaos in the Middle East to the rest of the world and intensify pressures for big power intervention to force a settlement. As the third front opened up, there seemed more reason than ever for the observers to remain. The U.N. and every one else were only too well aware that the last...
...belt a 68-year-old grandmother in the face, but the old woman was not one bit impressed by her deferential pat on the cheek. "You'll have to hit me harder than that, dear, if the scene's going to work." So Helen Hayes took a good smash from Miss Bisset-and the scene worked. Back in Hollywood, after a 13-year absence, for the filming of Arthur Hailey's bestseller Airport, the great lady of the stage still scorns a standin. In her role as chronic stowaway Ada Quonsett, she even insisted on doing...
...economic and social sins. But as the nation recognizes the le gitimate demands of the black revolution, it must also acknowledge the legitimate fears of the white reaction. Otherwise, feeling threatened, the marginal whites themselves may threaten a society that they feel has betrayed them. It does little good to condemn - and further alienate - pre cisely those working-class whites whose good will and co operation are vital to achieving racial peace and urban progress...
...will require not only inspiring national leadership and a more efficient and equitable use of present resources, but also an in crease in those resources. It will be possible only if it becomes clear that in a growing American economy, amidst continuing American progress, there is enough of the good life for everyone...
...more of it than the pauper-and no less. Previous economic theory, says Linder, fails to take into sufficient account that leisure time must be consumed, either by doing something or doing nothing. For a society both af fluent and leisured, and anxious to put every moment to good use, there are simply too many things to do. Overwhelmed by a burgeoning store of goods and services designed for pleasure, the would-be consumer, trying to do everything at once, succumbs to a malady that Linder calls "pleasure blindness...