Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs: their invective, their whining-they considered it unfair of Israel to have used pilots who spoke Arabic to confuse their foes-and their wild threats to fight again tomorrow. "It is apparent," said Hussein, "that we have not yet learned well enough how to use the weapons of modern warfare...
Though it recently suffered one of the worst military defeats in modern history, the Arab world does not seem to have awakened to the reality. Instead of trying to salvage what they can, the Arabs are busy blaming just about everybody but themselves for the fact that great gobs of their territory lie in Israeli hands. They are irritated with Russia for suggesting that they will have to be more reasonable as a condition of more economic aid. They are dismayed as they listen day after day to Israeli politicians talk of imposing ever tougher terms for a settlement. They...
...West is baffled by this people. Most Arabs from Aden to Algeria are poor, sick, uneducated, and desperately in need of survival training for the 20th century. The vision of a once great civilization moving into the modern world should be a cause to fire the Arab mind and spirit, a unifying challenge to build national pride and progress. Yet for two decades, Arab leaders have been more interested in mounting suicidal wars against Israel. If the Arabs truly weighed their own self-interest after their latest, disastrous defeat, they would face facts-or so a Westerner would reason-accept...
...factory, uniting to turn out ingots, pencils and marzipan. Diapolyecran is a 32-ft. by 20-ft. mosaic composed of 112 huge cubes, each equipped with its own interior slide projector. Wittily presenting a pageant of primitive mammals, insects and Neanderthalers, it moves on to show modern man dwarfed by the machines he has produced. Appropriately, every movement of Diapolyecran has been programmed by computer...
...support. That it is wise to act in neglect of the informed, articulate and young -- that they can be ignored as somehow morally as well as numerically inferior -- is far from proven. On the contrary, it is likely to be rembered as one of the cardinal political errors of modern times. In American life, it has long been my observation that the intellectual, so-called, is fashionably dismissed as a serious factor in all the battles except the last...