Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depicted in The Lonely Crowd 19 years ago, Americans were all too well adjusted to the gray-flannel goals of "success." That is no longer so. David Riesman, who wrote the book with two colleagues and added its title to the American idiom, now finds that after two decades "the earlier tendency toward glib self-satisfaction" has been succeeded by "an atmosphere of what seems to me extravagant self-criticism...
...grenade away from the two before it could explode. Captured enemy documents indicate that the Communists at present are in the process of preparing to launch the final phase of their war plan. That phase is not so much an "offensive"-the weakened Communist forces no longer use the word-as a series of "high points" or sporadic attacks designed to make the American people so weary of the war that they will demand an immediate pullout...
...handful of other Russian writers fled to the West, he remained determined to stay and work for the cause of literary freedom in the Soviet Union. In 1967 he angered the apparatchiki with his famous letter to the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers, in which he condemned "the no longer tolerable oppression, in the form of censorship" to which the country's literature was subjected. Soviet officials became increasingly outraged after his books were smuggled to the West and published...
...motor but the battery. As many as 16 expensive, low-energy-density batteries are needed to make an electric car go. Together they weigh the car down and completely fill what is now trunk space. More serious, no electric car can cruise much farther than 80 miles or longer than a few hours without having to stop to be recharged...
HELLER: It is perfectly clear that we can no longer live by economics alone. Certainly the "New Economics" isn't enough, and the "Nixonomics" isn't enough. We need a new amalgam of social and economic considerations. It is not enough just to grow-it's a question of growth for what...