Word: plowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until everyone agrees to hitch his charger to a plow, the U.S. has no choice but to keep its horses-and its hounds-the acknowledged champions on any track. In doing this, it will be guided in the '60s and '70s by several major military conclusions about which most experts agree...
...tart final column, O'Hara claims that the newspapers canceled because he was too conservative for their tastes. Most readers who like O'Hara enough to plow through the book, which covers everything from politics and education to journalism and television, will concede that he has a legitimate beef...
Tastes have also changed. Tourists-with the possible exception of the Germans-no longer have the ambition to plow through such weighty tomes as the Guides Bleus, which describe every stone and tree in fine print. "To sell," says one London publisher, "you have to put out atmospherics. You have to provide a well-written feeling for the place, a lot of color, a lot of narrative." Such books are all to the good, for when they are done by sensitive writers, they can achieve an almost poetic understanding of places they cover. One such series is the Companion Guides...
...aborigines had invented neither the wheel nor the plow, nor had they imagined the whip. The same reproach had been felt before. The Tahitians had burst into tears when Cook had a thief flogged on the rigging of his ship. All these things have been written of before -Australia's natural history, Pacific exploration, and colonization. It is Moorehead's peculiar talent to keep the land, the natives and the newcomers in mind at the same time, so that what may have been regarded as mere event takes on the aspect of a moral drama. Historical journalism here...
...economy was surging ahead far faster than the Government had anticipated in January. Unemployment was down to a twelve-year low of 3.7%, and there were already serious shortages of construction workers, machinists and technicians. With factories operating at more than 90% of capacity, industrialists were planning to plow $60.2 billion into new equipment, $2.4 billion above Washington's estimates, further straining overextended credit lines and labor pools...