Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vision of its own past, for good or ill. Frances FitzGerald has kind words for some of the new texts - and techniques. Among them: so-called "inquiry" texts which, instead of presenting a strict chronology, offer primary sources organized around specific continuing historical issues: The People Make a Nation by Martin W. Sandier, Edwin C. Roswenc and Edward C. Martin delves extensively into such topics as "The Centralization of Power" and ";The Black Looks at Himself." A section on "Founders and Forefathers" includes quotations from John Winthrop to Oscar Handlin...
Reconstruction has been completely reinterpreted. Where Muzzey and many others castigated the "scalawags" and "carpetbaggers," a new edition of a bestselling history, the Lewis Paul Todd and Merle Curti Rise of the American Nation, speaks primly of "Radical Republicans" who were "influenced by a sincere feeling of obligation to the freed slaves." A few post-Viet Nam texts note the use of torture by U.S. soldiers in the Philippines in 1899, a subject never mentioned before...
Savings inflows at the nation's 5,000 federally regulated savings and loan associations dropped to $1.5 billion in July, down from $2.8 billion a year ago. The state-chartered mutual savings banks have lost more than $2 billion in deposits since January, $725 million just in July...
...Century Before), he displayed a gift for elegy that made the city as remote as the boondock, and a knack for seeing the familiar for the first time. In Africa, it is the unfamiliar that moves him. After flying, bouncing and sliding around the continent's largest nation, Hoagland learns more than he needs to about Dinkas, Turkanas, mercenaries, missionaries, coups, assassinations, the green monkey disease, the protein value of dura soghum, going without bath water ("I lay in my sleeping bag, cleaning my toes with my toes") and how a country runs on a trickle of gasoline...
...could construct a kind of "worst-case scenario" to prove that the U.S., with the rest of the West, has fallen into dangerous decline. The case might be argued thus: the nation's pattern is moral and social failure, embellished by hedonism. The work ethic is nearly as dead as the Weimar Republic. Bureaucracies keep cloning themselves. Resources vanish. Education fails to educate. The system of justice collapses into a parody of justice. An underclass is trapped, half out of sight, while an opulent traffic passes overhead. Religion gives way to narcissistic self-improvement cults...