Word: mid-20th
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...Month; like his other books, it will probably be a rattling good story and no literary masterpiece. No mound of Ph.D. theses on symbols and significance is likely to be stacked over Shute's books. Yet later years may find them a remarkably reliable portrait of mid-20th century man and his concerns. Shute himself read little, but in Henry James's words, he qualified as "one of the people on whom nothing is lost...
AMID the swift social changes and sudden international crises of the mid-20th century, the impatient and the doctrinaire often complain that Congress - slow-moving, operating through committees and compromises -is an awkward antique, a hindrance to national efficiency, perhaps even a handicap in the race for national survival. In a bracing new book on Congress and the American Tradition (Henry Regnery; $6.50), a conservative political philosopher speaks up this week in Congress' defense. The defender: muscular-minded James Burnham, 53, former New York University philosophy professor who made a still-rippling intellectual splash back in 1941 with...
...overriding question facing mid-20th century America, said Nixon, is simply that of "the survival of our civilization." What is the immediate answer to that question? Clearly, the policy that "retreat before aggression can only make war inevitable"-a policy followed both by the Republican Eisenhower Administration and by the Democratic 86th Congress ("I specifically want to pay tribute to members of the Democratic Party in the Congress for putting statesmanship above partisanship...
...Gaulle has done but from what he is. In an age that makes a cult of ordinariness, he is a democrat but not an egalitarian. In a world in which power suggests danger, he openly regards the wise exercise of power as the supreme function of man. Where most mid-20th century statesmen feel obliged to cloak their extraordinary qualities in a mantle of folksiness, he unabashedly regards himself as a historic figure and comports himself as a man of greatness...
...last summer on its historic ocean-to-ocean passage, it was almost like a brilliantly calculated triumph of matter over matter. Perhaps the most striking drama was not the conflict of man v. the elements, which characterized the 19th century, but the contrast between that traditional conflict and the mid-20th century ease with which the sonar-watching, fathometer-reading, Coke-drinking crew of the Nautilus defied the elements. In Nautilus 90 North (the message Nautilus radioed to indicate it had reached the North Pole), the supersub's skipper, Commander William R. (for Robert) Anderson, adds little...