Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...separate message to Congress, Johnson proposed a budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 that comes to $195,300,000,000, an $11.6 billion jump from the present year's estimated total. The nation can afford this new federal spending, Johnson explained, precisely because it is so prosperous. He predicted budget surpluses of $2.4 billion for fiscal 1969 and $3.4 billion for fiscal 1970. Total defense outlays will creep up only $500 million to $81.5 billion, and the proportion going for Viet Nam will drop, for the first time, from 35.5% to 31.2%-partly because the costly bombing...
...future years would seek to be. "Wee shall be," Winthrop prophesied, "as a Citty upon a Hill, the Eies of all people are uppon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world...
Pessimistic objections to the present course and rate of improvement-indeed to the whole idea of material progress as an absolute value-have been stirred, too, by a continued, if unequal, philosophic conflict over the nature of man. In one view-long predominant and customarily summed up by Descartes' dictum, "I think, therefore I am"-thought and instinct are separate and man at his best is a rational animal. In the other view, often pilloried under the pejorative name Romanticism, thought and feeling are rightly and forever intermingled. Systems are to be avoided, individuality is stressed-which often made...
...white students: a better life, a better job-largely the products of material progress. Along with the Viet Nam War it was, after all, a demand for a betterment of the Negroes' condition that first spurred the young, and indeed the country, to the present reappraisal of itself...
...they hope to profit further from Americans' successes, as well as from their failures and shortcomings. So, despite the pessimism about the limitations of material progress, which the paradoxes of the American experience have lately pointed up, it is unlikely that the world will abandon its pursuit. The present rebellion by the blacks and the young could still fragment American society beyond anything now imagined possible. The end result will more likely be a heightening consciousness, a raising of national sights. The new challenging target will be progress, understood in a broader and more sophisticated way to include...