Word: marveled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defined the driving American character as it developed between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Samuel Eliot Morison's 1,150-page The Oxford History of .'he American People was impressive but quirky. Will a, d Ariel Durant's series on Western civilization continued to be a marvel of readable scholarship with the Age of Voltaire, and Kenneth Stampp's Era of Reconstruction put the blame back on the South's unreconstructed rebels instead of on all those Yankee carpetbaggers. Among minor but intriguing miscellany, Intern, by "Doctor X," was unsettling but fascinating to anyone...
...20th century. Without collecting a dinar of taxes from Kuwaitis, he wiped out unemployment in a land of underfed illiterates, created an elaborate school system and the world's most lavish welfare state, rebuilt the mud brick capital city of Kuwait into a tidy little air-conditioned marvel of modern office buildings and apartments and tree-lined boulevards...
...Mississippi, 6 ft. 3 in., 235 lbs. Usually the pros resign themselves to making guards out of college tackles, because college guards are too small. Not this year. Iowa was the doormat of the Big Ten, but Niland still drew raves from 14 pro teams. Hindman, the scouts marvel, "can play any offensive or defensive position in the line, and he is as fast as most fullbacks...
...INDONESIA. The marvel is that any progress at all could have been so skillfully avoided. The $831 million in economic aid and $77.8 million in military assistance that were poured into this naturally rich country collided with the simple fact that Sukarno has no interest in economic development; he seeks empire. The U.S. program crashed when he shouted, "To hell with your aid." One salvageable irony is that the U.S. effort inspired the U.S.S.R. to give Indonesia more than $1 billion, and now Sukarno is bitter against Russians...
...this an unusually great museum. "It is the best museum in the world," says U.S. Architect Philip Johnson, who has built many museums himself. It may well be. However, the most convincing testimonial comes from the thousands of Mexican villagers who trek there from all over the country to marvel at their heritage. And, as they linger around an inscrutable stone god or by a latticed temple, they, too, become part of Mexico's living museum...