Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...income redistribution. A family allowance was surely the most promising candidate. It would have cost $5 to $10 billion per year according to the scheme adopted but we had the money. To have enacted it would have been a first step in the necessary movement from the "civil-rights" phase--the phase involving legal equality for Negroes--into the phase of "equality as a fact and as a result...
...into his throat and turning two flaps of skin inward. Lopata had been breathing for a month through a hole lower down in his neck. The surgeons fitted this hole with a tube through which he could breathe, and made another opening above it in preparation for the next phase...
Noodling around the discarded film scraps from old adventure and spy movies, pasting the label "camp" on anything that does not make sense, the producers are the flattest Pied Pipers ever to lead the television industry into its next phase. In Fame Is the Name of the Game, for example, Tony Franciosa is a dashing magazine writer who regales his rookie researcher with snappy one-liners: "What's the matter with you? You look like your Living Bra just died." Tony spends so much time tracking down the killers that he has no time to write the story; Dead...
...months ago, the government's harsh attitude toward dissent entered a tough new phase. It began when Leszek Kolakowski, a party member and professor of philosophy at Warsaw University, addressed a student meeting. His subject was Poland's progress since the 1956 revolution. His conclusion: there had been none. No democratic freedom had evolved. Criticism and research in literature, sociology, modern history and the arts were still sharply inhibited. The old Stalinist penal code was still in existence and arbitrarily applied. The students applauded wildly, and several rose to support Kolakowski's defiant conclusion...
Jason Epstein suggests that "people don't look to novels for what they used to. When I was in college, you looked at them for the truth. That transcendental phase is out now. I think perhaps novels succeeded too well-they told all they could. People look elsewhere for what they once got from novels-it may be to social writing or maybe TV, depending on who they...