Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is the conclusion of a report by a Harvard-based group that has been studying the impact of modern technology on society for the past four years under a $5-million grant from the International Business Machine Corporation...
...that direct participation is becoming less relevant to a society in which the connections between causes and effects are long and often hidden--which is an increasingly 'indirect' society, in other words--elaboration of a new democratic ethos and of new democratic processes more adequate to the realities of modern society will emerge as perhaps the major intellectual challenge of our time...
...attempted satire in formal rhymed Popian couplets, and perhaps only W. H. Auden has succeeded in didactic eloquence within a variety of formal, traditional stanzas. Doubtless, the exact antipode of Pope's Augustan order would be the artless, extemporaneous effusions that issue from the flower children of the modern coffee house-quite a different breed from an 18th century coffee house. "A thousand years may elapse," Dr. Johnson said, "before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope." With a quarter-millennium nearly gone, a reading of Quennell's Pope...
...superb, ceremonious formality of Pope's verse is strange to modern ears. In Tocqueville's prophetic words: "Taken as a whole, literature in democratic ages can never present, as it does in periods of aristocracy, an aspect of order, regularity, science and art; its form will on the contrary ordinarily be slighted, sometimes despised, [and] the object of authors will be to astonish rather than please, and to stir the passions rather than charm the taste...
...everyone was quite so generous. Former LBJ aide Eric Goldman felt the speech underscored Johnson's fundamental failure, which was to understand the modern city and the people--"the corporation executives from Scarsdale"--who live in it. Arthur Schlesinger didn't like the speech because it included no "analysis" of how the war had been bad for the Great Society programs, and more generally because the President did not convey enough of a sense of the mess that he was leaving the country...