Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be ironic, though common in human experience, if things had to get much worse before Americans finally decided that strife had gone too far. What seems hopeful, however, is that Americans are already drawn, more than in the past, to Royce's vision of community and an end to the dehumanizing aspects of technological society. "A sense of community is not the only good," concludes a new study of U.S. life prepared under outgoing HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen. "But, as the present divisions in our society reveal, it is very much worth asking whether we have as much...
...past 15 years, Ellis has devoted himself, at the expense of his family, his health and his legal career, to the betterment of his home city. "Our job as citizens," he says, "is to set up some viable alternatives for the next generation, not paint these kids into a corner...
...here. Within a few years, this village will be empty. The face of Jose Flores Gomez is creased from 60 years of weather and laughter and, when he speaks, his dark eyes dance as though amused. Don Pepe, as friends call him, is not amused when he ponders the past and the future of his home, the Andalusian coastal village of Palomares. Last week, as he and his fellow villagers celebrated the feast day of their patron, St. Antony the Abbot, they also marked the third anniversary of the day when the bombs fell on Palomares...
...nation that once ruled over a quarter of the globe is now desperately retrenching, and a great many Britons might agree with the Spectator: "What we must do is to act on the very threat that many of our partners have used against us too successfully in the past. We should withdraw our membership...
...tourist attraction. Only a single road is paved. Entertainment consists of two bars and a movie theater that shows old films on Thursday nights, Sundays and holidays. Still, Palomares was a singularly prosperous town. As its lead and silver mines, discovered by the Phoenicians, finally petered out over the past 30 years, the miners were given severance pay in land instead of pesetas. Pride of ownership and an abundance of sweet water from deep wells coaxed from the arid land the best tomatoes in all of Almeria province. Since the bombs fell, the tomato crops have failed six successive times...