Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...democracy. Diamond noted that the challenge of leadership is to balance skepticism with trust. Wilson observed that the malaise in America had increased since the 1950s particularly because many people felt that the quality of life had not kept pace with technological advance. Ford suggested that perhaps the pendulum had swung too far toward a national "self-destructive impulse" that threatened institutions and savaged public officials...
Viking. $27.50. As the wreckers' ball -that pendulum that does not keep time-continues to obliterate America's brick and concrete heritage, bridges may have to support the added burden of Unking the present to the past. In all their various lengths and styles, these vastly expensive monuments to man's ingenuity and perseverance combine the most basic usefulness with a beauty that commuters have long since taken for granted. Photographer David Plowden provides the pictures and historical text that should restore the balance of awe and respect due these structures...
...accession with cries of alarm or should have treated the pardon routinely. News judgment is the most subjective of exercises; one editor's excess is another's sobriety. But Shaw's overall appraisal seems valid. Coverage of major running stories too often does take on a pendulum effect. The encouraging thing is that more and more journalists are worried about...
Chile has now fallen victim to a further swing of the pendulum ever-moving between past and future. Those who would use the past to create a new future have temporarily succumbed to the indiscriminate forces of the modern age. But the hope of Chile, in its fading from reality into history and from life into literature, becomes a new piece in a puzzle perpetually being pieced together. While in Europe and the U.S. the horizon is circumscribed by the steel and concrete of ever-rising skyscrapers, in Latin America the vistas for the future are unlimited. There the mills...
...been impossible. Now a University of Chicago research team reports that it has found a way, almost as simple as the hammer-and-knee-jerk reflex test, to do both. The test involves observing the patient's eye movements as he follows the swing of a pendulum...