Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEDIUM COOL is dynamite. A loose narrative about a TV cameraman during last summer's Chicago convention, Cool is the most impassioned and impressive film so far this year. Haskell Wexler makes a dazzling directorial debut by fusing dramatic and documentary footage into a vivid portrait of a nation in conflict...
...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1968, by Theodore H. White. Whether following the poetic figure of Eugene McCarthy into the night or documenting Richard Nixon's electronic conquest of the nation, White is just as diligent as he was in his accounts of the two previous presidential races. However, his protagonist lacks the kind of flamboyance that fires up White's romantic mind, and as a result, a gray pall hangs over much of the book...
...Congratulations! Your article, "The Message of History's Biggest Happening" [Aug. 29], does a superb job of furthering the moral decay of this nation. The photograph, "Boys and Girls Relate in a Nearby River," was just a little too much for my 31-year-old "traditional values." When I was their age, we "related" with our clothes...
Temporary Immunization. It is perhaps only coincidence that none of the cities inoculated by major riot have yet suffered a second big outbreak; in the curious chemistry of violence, they seem to have achieved at least a temporary kind of immunization. No one pretends that the problems of the nation's blacks have been solved, and no one yet dares predict what may come after the Thermidor pause is over.* But governments and ghettos alike have become more sophisticated and skillful at handling their common difficulties. Expressing a widespread view, Jack Meltzer, director of the University of Chicago Center...
...Illusion. People have been busily slicing up the still hypothetical peace dividend for a long time. Thus it was considerably dismaying when, on the eve of the conference, Daniel Moynihan, the executive secretary of the Urban Affairs Council, informed the nation that any peace dividend that accrued would quickly be soaked up by increased defense costs and burgeoning domestic programs such as welfare and aid to education. But Presidential Counsel Arthur Burns was an early guest of the Governors, and he had more hopeful news. There had been a "little misunderstanding" of Moynihan's remarks, he allowed...