Word: human
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before they become big offensives, in the growing frustration and confusion of the enemy, in the degree of popular will-to-win at home. Ultimate policy goal: to wrap up the political, economic, military and moral meanings of the U.S. into the sort of grand plan that the cause-human freedom-deserves and the objective -an orderly, peaceful world of prospering, responsible nations-demands...
...produce a Sputnik, but for all his promises and boasts, he could not solve or begin to solve his country's continuing agricultural crisis. In Red China, faced with his own agricultural crisis, Mao Tsetung launched 1958's most audacious political act, ordering his 650 million subjects into human anthills called "people's communes." But at year's end he was compelled to retreat, not because of popular resentment (which did not bother him), but because his scheme was not working at all well...
...memorable shrine to the great moment when European art was born. In little more than a century, Greek sculpture passed from the archaic, which was mainly imported, to the classical and home grown. The austere Greek figures of the 6th century B.C. gave way to the playful and nearly human marbles of the 5th century. This moment of new birth, perhaps the most important in art history, is newly documented as the Acropolis Museum celebrates the new year by opening three new galleries...
...elements. In Nautilus 90 North (the message Nautilus radioed to indicate it had reached the North Pole), the supersub's skipper, Commander William R. (for Robert) Anderson, adds little to the specifics of the polar victory. But in footnote-to-history fashion, he captures something of the human effort behind the excellence, the personalities behind the perfection...
...calendar of the triumphs, defeats and contortions of the human spirit during...