Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that absolutely nothing matters anymore. So far gone is Carnovsky's doctor that, after washing and drying his hand in a basin, he proceeds immediately to wash them all over again. At the end Carnovsky shows us the mere shell of a man with not a shred of humanity left inside...
...wood is rotting. In evoking a gray, totalitarian world, and in showing how, no matter what minor fluctuations the government undergoes, the poor never escape that world, this novel reflects Orwell's paternal influence. Politics, particularly the opposition politics of the Labour Party and those groups to its left, become the novel's initial concern. Yet, for Mrs. Lessing, politics are now something of a dead end. She sardonically delights in unearthing their hidden contradictions that scurry about in the dark like beetles under stones. On a superficial level, there...
...economy to a difficult stage of decision. As TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Ed Reingold reports, more and more Japanese leaders realize that their economy has to make the jarring transition from super-precocious adolescence to maturity. At home, Japanese consumers complain that they have been left behind in the scramble for export markets, and they are clamoring for more of the rewards of industrial expansion. Abroad, many of Japan's best trading partners are becoming increasingly impatient with the way that its businessmen flood the world with exports while keeping their own economy insulated from foreign goods...
Jobs for Life. Consumers are left out of the consensus, and they are becoming restless. Workers strike for giant wage increases-an average 15% this year-that aggravate inflation. Labor unrest is an ominous sign of discontent, for workers have also had their guaranteed place in the semifeudal industrial system. When a youngster fresh out of high school signs on with a company, both parties understand that he will stay on until retirement...
...Nothing is left unchanged. Neurotic, studious looking Radcliffe girls with round, horn-rimmed glasses are replaced by 4-H Club cheerleaders from Miame U., and the all too serious self-involved Harvard student gives way to tackles and student body presidents from the Big Ten Colleges. Even the Revolution takes a break," writes Steve Lerner (Harvard '68), the author of the article...