Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Losses went up, but so did the proficiency of his bombers. LeMay took similar risks in the Pacific. Assigned to run 300-plane B-29 raids against Japan, he removed his bombers guns and gunners, overloaded them with fire bombs to dump on the enemy from a dangerously low level...
...Lawrence and the elder Green are deard, and have left no heirs capable of ruling the realm. Mayor Joseph Barr of Pittsburgh and Mayor James Tate of Philadelphia can barely control their own baronies, let alone work effectively on the statewide level...
...battle against highway billboards, jet sonic booms and all-digit telephone dialing. All the same, big social explosions these days are usually caused by a pile-up of many small problems-nearly all of them soluble by small-scale activism. The fact is that democracy needs Doers at every level. How can the U.S. ensure that there are always enough to go around? Does it develop them? The answer is a highly qualified...
...ROTC loses its academic status, Pell argues, it will be "derogated and reduced to the level of an extracurricular game." Again he misinterprets the college program which is designed to allow students with career interests--politics or journalism, for instance--plenty of time to pursue them outside the regular course structure. It is not clear why those who want to be officers in the military could not do the same...
WELL, OKAY, on one level it's a simple cashing-in on cliche; certainly Hollywood provides a hippie guaranteed to satisfy any Kansas housewife steeped in instinctive hatred of a human species more reprehensible than the red menace. But given the lasting power of the film image, we are perhaps witnessing the commercial creation of a breed of hippie at the expense of the real animal. Assuming that the hippie movement goes the way of the flappers and beatniks, we run the risk of seeing them in fifty years only as they were given us by the commercial American cinema...