Word: mumford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (4) 5. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (5) 6. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Mauser (10) √ 7. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (7) √ 8. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan 9. The City in History, Mumford (9) 10. Reality in Advertising, Reeves...
...English Bible (3) √3. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (2) 4. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (4) 5. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (5) √6. Skyline, Fowler (8) 7. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (6) 8. The City in History, Mumford (7) 9. Reality in Advertising, Reeves 10. Who Killed Society? Amory...
...York Times carried a paid advertisement in which over seventy scholars from the Boston area urged a re-evaluation of the Government's Cuban policy. The petition, constructed as an open letter to President Kennedy, was signed by Edmund Wilson, Lewis Mumford, Lillian Hellman, Harry Levin, Norbert Wiener, Reuben Brower, Albert Guerard, David Owen, Morton White and Eric Bentley, among others. It called for an attempt to "detach the Castro regime from the Communist bloc by working for a diplomatic detente and a resumption of trade relations...
...Constant Vision. Almost 40 years and 20 books later, Mumford's perspective has broadened, but the vision has scarcely changed: it is still Cassandra's, ominous and unheeded. Writes Mumford in The City in History: "Another century of such 'progress' may work irreparable damage upon the human race. Instead of deliberately creating an environment more effective than the ancient city, . . . our present methods would smooth out differences and reduce potentialities, to create a state of mindless unconsciousness . The polite name for this creature is 'man-in-space,' but the correct phrase...
...Mumford's theme is thus the ceaseless struggle between modern civilization and modern man, massively and often turgidly argued in the pioneering tetralogy-on which he labored, heedless of the paradox that as his reputation has grown, his influence has diminished. Now, in an intricate synthesis of his past output, Sociologist-Art Critic-Litterateur-Town Planner Mumford has written a densely composed history of that struggle on its most bloody battlefield-the city. The interpretation may not be fresh, but simply as a Portable Mumford (if 576 pages of narrative, 56 pages of annotated bibliography, and 114 pages...