Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Bellows once remarked, and rightly, that "the name given to a thing is not the subject, it is only a convenient label. The subject is inexhaustible." Yet the label that Bellows gave to his 1909 masterpiece at Washington's National Gallery has weight. Both Members of This Club...
Family series on U.S. television have laugh tracks, Doris Day, cute kids, lovable ghosts, Fred MacMurray and hilarious situations. What they don't have with any consistency is writing, characterization, drama, style and insight. Except, this season, for The Forsyte Saga, which begins a 26-week series this Sunday...
THE U.S. has seldom been reluctant to embrace either technological change or the challenge of great national projects. It is a sign of the questioning times that disquiet now attends a project of just such dimensions: the supersonic transport aircraft. Last week, when President Nixon announced his decision to spend...
$40 Million a Plane. Yet the SST raises a troublesome question: what is its proper place in the scheme of national priorities? Granted that money saved by delaying the SST would not likely be spent in the ghettos, it is still debatable whether a supersonic transport is a better investment...
The big push to build the SST now emanates from the sheer momentum of technology. After the SST will come the hypersonic transport, with speeds of 5,000 m.p.h., and then suborbital flight. Each step will eventually be taken for the same reason that man climbed Mount Everest: it was...