Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge homeowners had organized the march fearing that Secretary Volpe would use his new position to push through the Inner Belt, which as Governor he had personally favored...
...well. To a large degree they are differences of style and experience, but precisely for that reason they are revealing of Mumford himself. Mumford is highly critical of the young for their arrogance in ignoring history. The impatience of the young, he feels, is just another manifestation of push-button mentality, which expects rewards in seconds. "Change," says Mumford, "takes experiment. It can't come overnight. This is the one thing I'm against." History teaches this lesson, and also gives clues to how change can come about...
...Left-handers are not the only ones who must negotiate a world designed for others. Take, for example, tall people-like myself-who find door lintels conveniently at forehead level, hotel beds several inches too short, and theater seats with just enough leg room to push one's knees into one's face. But that's not the worst of it: we also find that almost all the pretty women are too short...
...senior members the best scenes. As Frank's wife, Irene Papas has a rare, abiding femininity that has taken on middle age and won. Luther Adler invests his role with the kind of craft and authority that make for supporting-actor awards. Douglas, fitted out in a push-broom mustache and dyed hair, is the most convincing, perhaps because the role of a prideful, aging bullock who clings to an old persona hits astonishingly close to home...
That exposed a critical weakness in the neo-Keynesian economics, which relies primarily on delicate adjustments in taxes, government spending and monetary policy to keep the economy running close to capacity. The New Economics had served well when business needed a push. But Britain's Keynes presumed that policymakers would always be wise enough, given knowledge of his theories, to do the right thing at the right moment. In the U.S., however, political leaders are usually unwilling to raise taxes quickly enough in overly expansive periods. The theories of the New Economics have not been found wanting; they have...