Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took to wearing unpressed suits and a soft grey shirt and, writes Thompson, "brought his arrogance and grouchiness under at least temporary control. His remarks were usually cheerful, witty, mischievously playful." Thompson concludes this phase of Frost's life with the newly successful poet preparing at 40 to return to America. Frost's ambition now was to find a farm in New England where he could "live cheap and get Yankier and Yankier." He did, and so did his work...
Fortunately, that phase of "civilization" gave way quickly to the foresighted civil rule of such Governors General as William Howard Taft and Francis B. Harrison. "Colonialists with a conscience," as they have been called, Taft and his successors brought the tools of self-government to the Philippines: literacy (72% of all Filipinos can read and write, the highest percentage in Southeast Asia), medicine (Filipino life expectancy in 1900 was 14 years, today it is 60), civil liberties (the Filipino press is the freest in Asia, if not the world). At the same time, the great experiment in self-liquidating colonialism...
These are the questions of the new phase of the Negro movement with which Floyd McKissick, as director of CORE, is attempting to deal...
Ugly Sound. President Johnson last week sounded a similar warning. "We have entered a new phase," he told visiting bishops from the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has an all-Negro membership of 1,300,000. "What if the cry for freedom becomes a sound of a brick cracking through a store window, turning over an automobile in the street or the sound of the mob? If that sound should drown out the voices of reason, frustration will replace progress and all of our best work will be undone...
Still, pop-psych flourishes-but it has entered a new phase. From conventional concern with repression and frustration, the fashion has shifted to alienation and identity problems...