Word: reckoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What, in short, does one give in the Society that Has Everything? Giving to the really needy has become depersonalized. For the rest, it is all too often a compulsion. "The time of gift giving is a time of reckoning," says Alvin W. Gouldner, sociology professor at St. Louis' Washington University. "We reckon up where we stand and whom we wish to remain tied to. The giver has not only the anxiety of trying to guess what the recipient would like, but also the added anxiety of projecting a suitable image of himself...
...11th century. Driven into exile 200 years later, the Jews returned during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, have since blossomed into one of the world's wealthiest and least persecuted Judaic communities. By the 19th century, the Rothschilds, Montagus and Samuelses made Jews a force to reckon with in British finance. Today, 40 members of Parliament are Jews, as well as 61 knights and 20 peers of the realm. Although Jews are expected to congregate at their own country clubs, there is comparatively little overt anti-Semitism in Britain-one of the few nations where Jews were never forced...
...desk console, a salesman anywhere in the U.S., within five minutes can get back a computerized analysis of the prospects of almost any stock. At night, while human employees rest, computers handle the firm's accounting, run off customer statements, prepare monthly reports, figure margins on individual accounts, reckon Merrill Lynch's daily cash position...
...last our black fellow citizens are telling us they are tired of begging. They are telling us that if we refuse to reckon with their humanity, we must reckon with their power. Let us not be surprised if their power proves to be almost as ugly as ours...
...will show that the Belt is either unneeded or ill-planned. In addition, they seek to mobilize popular support against the highway. Doing either of these things will be difficult, but even if it does succeed, the prospect of the Inner Belt's being scrapped remains slim. One must reckon with the facts: both state and federal highway officials are highly committed to the road; Gov. John A. Volpe is solidly behind the highway; and thus far, the opposition has lacked both the breadth and depth to convince any pro-Belt politician that his political salvation lies in a change...