Word: lively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plan in Europe. "Aid for development," says the Pearson report, "does not usually buy dependable friends." Then why give at all? On the simplest level, the report stated, "it is only right for those who have to share with those who have not." Then again, the report notes, "we live in a village world," where concern with problems at home and abroad is becoming "a political and social imperative." Strongest of all is the pragmatic argument that aid-fostered development will help increase world trade, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike...
...underdeveloped countries by the year 2000. If the report's proposed aid increases are adopted, and if population growth can be held down-two enormous ifs -they might make it. If not, Pearson's "village world" may be an even more dangerous place in which to live than it is today...
...father, Italian Actor Franco Nero. The free-spirited star of The Loves of Isadora had said, when she announced her pregnancy in April, that she had no plans to marry Nero ("I don't think marriage would make me a very nice person to live with"). Carlo's birth has made Vanessa no less adamant. "I doubt very much if we will get married," she said last week...
...overt hostility. Once this wall of official resistance was breached, Dr. Kübler-Ross found that the dying themselves were only too willing to talk. In four years the seminar has heard from 150 patients; there have been only three refusals. The author now understands why. "To live on borrowed time," she writes, "to wait in vain for the doctors to make their rounds, lingering on from visiting hours to visiting hours, looking out of the window, hoping for a nurse with some extra time for a chat, this is the way many terminally ill patients pass their time...
Despite his acid criticism, McHarg is convinced that the U.S. can replan its cities, curb pollution and halt suburban chaos. As he notes, "America is land rich -90% of the people live on 2% of the land. The answer to our environmental problems is diffusion. The 100 million more people we expect in the next few decades could be settled in 100 new cities. We have everything we need: the land, brains, wealth, technology. We only need the desire-and leadership." Eventually, by helping to provide that leadership, McHarg may match the work of his hero, Capability Brown...