Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These differences reflect a truism: patriotism has become more individualistic as U.S. society has grown more complex. The U.S. people, in their modern, more urban way of life, are better educated, more aware of the world and more sophisticated than their forebears. For the past decade, the young have grown...
The Kremlin merely drifts and demurs, absorbing in stoic silence both the gibes of the Chinese and such steady irritants as Castro, whom it continues to give $1,000,000 a day in aid. Moreover, the world's revolutionaries no longer look to Russia or its leaders for inspiration...
The competition began prematurely. The Observer's Middle East Correspondent Patrick Scale, who replaced Philby when he defected to Russia in 1963, had been working on the story for four years with the help of Philby's ex-wife Eleanor. Publication was still months away when the Observer...
He returned to the attack after graduation by editing the anti-establishment weekly, the Texas Observer, but he also learned some facts of political life. "The heavy hand was not only ineffective," he reflects, "it was usually irrelevant. Humor was essentially a way of surviving, and it was no coincidence...
Illusion of Paradise. Vermont Royster, editor of the Wall Street Journal, waited until a more conventional age, 53, to publish his first book, a collection of essays on a wide range of topics that he has written over the years for his paper. Consequently, Royster is more reconciled to the...