Word: nots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vastly more important than the statistical competition is the competition of ideas: capitalism v. Communism, free enterprise v. state control. And here in 1959, the true strength of the U.S. was in the spread of its ideas through deeds and example around the globe. More and more nations demonstrated that...
It was not till Poor Richard that Franklin hit his stride as a maker and collector of aphorisms; e.g., "After 3 days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy." "Men and Melons are hard to know," "There is no little enemy." Poor Richard, of course, is...
Virtue & Fate. Ben Franklin was not as smug as he sometimes sounds. He was endlessly bent on civic and personal improvement, whether it was founding a library or starting a fire department. The doctrine of human perfectibility to which he subscribed was not yet the easy evolutionary faith of the...
But the work shall not be wholly lost:
Woodworking Works. Disaffection with the times is the common ingredient. Predictably, the writer who has mixed the smoothest cup of brine is The New Yorker's John Cheever. With his oft-repeated visions of suburbia under a lowering sky, the author is obviously following Faulkner's lead by...