Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course. Some of the shock feeling is caused by a kind of historical provincialism: one often tends to feel that one's own time, one's particular moment, is the worst, the most significant ever. Historians are cooler about it. With cosmic detachment, they insist that the only crucial years are those providing great turning points in human affairs. For all its banner headlines, 1968 does not begin to compare with, say, 1848, when seismic revolutions cracked the old European order in the Austrian Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and The Netherlands. To date, the 20th century...
...presence of 20 Red army divisions for his survival, Ulbricht fears any diplomatic development that might leave his half of Germany stranded in Central Europe among countries that no longer practice his rigid, monolithic form of Communism. Alexander Dubcek's experiment in liberalizing Czechoslovakia thus represents a particular nightmare for the old East German boss. He fears that the Czecho slovaks will recognize West Germany in return for economic help. That, according to Ulbricht's domino theory, would lead to similar action by Hungary and the eventual isolation of his own satrapy...
...really like at all. You know, I'm beginning to see why some of the people I talk to have anxieties. Being interviewed is a very artificial thing. You never really know what the attitude of the interviewer is, why he's asking a particular question...
Waiting for Hitler. My particular question at that moment concerns the miniature gold whistle Reed wears around his neck. He keeps tugging at it. "It's from Tiffany's," he replies. "Fourteen-karat. From Tiffany's. It's just a gift from a young lady. Nobody famous...
...many a tasteful parlor, whole families sat for hours poring over the treasures in a Sears catalogue. It was called "the wishing book," and it was usually tattered and dog-eared by the time somebody punched a hole in it and hung it in the family privy. When this particular catalogue appeared, the firm of Sears Roebuck and Co.-founded by Richard W. Sears, a former railroad-station agent, and Alvah Roebuck, a watch repairman -was four years old and prospering...