Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generous helping of what many think of as at least a partial remedy for the ills of the world: poetry. This week the entire Books section is devoted to a thorough survey of contemporary U.S. poetry-a look at the modern school and what has been developing over the past decade. All the reviews were written by Contributing Editor George Dickerson, himself a poet, whose work has been published in a variety of magazines, including Mademoiselle and The New Yorker...
Thin-faced and balding, Sobell called back other ghosts from the past. In the 1930s, when he was a student at the City College of New York, he lunched from time to time in the cafeteria with Julius Rosenberg, a fellow student. Both belonged to the Young Communist League, and both worked for the U.S. Government as engineers during World War II. Later in New York, they met once again socially...
What makes it difficult to get a true fix on the nation's position is the permanent characteristic of the age-the bewildering speed of change. The fact is often stated. But just recognizing it is little help in trying to grasp the impact. In the past three generations, the everyday life of Western man has changed more than it did in the previous 2,000 years. A revolution in farm technology has shifted huge populations into teeming cities. Already 73% of Americans live on only 1% of the land; by 1985, U.S. cities will swell by the equivalent...
...anger is not difficult to explain. The dream of equality has been deferred too long, and Americans, both white and black, are paying in the late '60s for the omissions of the past. For there is another side to the glowing figures of black advancement. Negroes are still three times as likely as whites to die in childbirth and infancy; they are three times as likely to be in poverty; they are twice as Likely to be unemployed. While they are gaining more in terms of income than whites, they are not likely to catch up at the present...
...past ten years, the growth of the American economy has far outstripped the comprehension of most individuals; even economists are at a loss for an abstract theory to explain it. But beyond dispute is the fact that never before has man transmuted energy and raw materials into wealth at such a fantastic rate. With 7% of the global land mass and 6% of its population, the U.S. produces about one-third of the world s goods and services. Every five years the American economy grows by the equivalent of that of West Germany, the third largest industrial nation...