Word: new
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indeed, the action is here. The new trends-both social and business-are here. Why? It is because a helluva lot of people are hard at work, creating and hustling into motion a better way of life. The lunatic elements make for colorful copy, but they contribute damned little to the dynamics that make this state tick...
...pull together the various elements of the story reported by TIME'S Washington and New York bureaus, Senior Editor Jason McManus assigned the lead article on the presidency to Associate Editor Keith Johnson and Researcher Mary Kelley. Associate Editor Lance Morrow and Researcher Michele Stephenson analyzed the Agnew speech itself, while Senior Editor Peter Martin and Associate Editor Richard Burgheim, usually in charge of the Television section, viewed the media in the light of the message. They were assisted by Contributing Editors William Doerner and Robert Hummerstone and Researchers Patricia Gordon. Gillian McManus and Georgia Harbison...
...Behavior section this week, TIME examines one body of dissidents whose voice, while comparatively muted until now, promises to grow much louder in the months to come: the militant new feminists of the Women's Liberation movement, who regard themselves as one of the most discriminated-against groups in American life today. The story was written by Ruth Brine, who was valedictorian of her class at West High School in Waterloo. Iowa, a Phi Beta Kappa and editor of the literary magazine at Vassar, and took a master's degree in journalism from Columbia. "Then, as any feminist...
Altered Mood. While shrill contentiousness is something of a novelty in the Nixon Administration, it is scarcely a tactic new to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Franklin Roosevelt rounded on "economic royalists" and Harry Truman on the "do-nothing 80th Republican Congress" in deliberate attempts to polarize the U.S. electorate, and both were critical of what was said about them in print. Now, as then, the news media tend to be thin-skinned and quick to rush to their own defense...
...politics of polarization are paying off. What will happen in the longer haul is more problematical, both at home and vis-a-vis Hanoi. He argues that dissent weakens the U.S. bargaining position. But not only is he stimulating dissent among many moderates and on the left by his new belligerence, he also risks stirring up the hard-line right to renewed cries of "Not peace-victory!" He may exacerbate the tensions of a nation distraught and confused as it has not been since the Depression. That danger augurs ill for both his presidency and the American people, and could...