Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft constitution will horrify not only traditionalists but quite a few serious students of government. It seems unduly cumbersome in some respects and naive in others-particularly in the assumption that political and philosophical ideas dating from the time of Newton (or Archimedes, for that matter) are necessarily invalid in the days of Bethe and Feynman. But the document is also full of fascinating ideas and just criticisms of the present Constitution. The fellows know that their draft will never be adopted, but they hope that its ideas will be considered. Says Wheeler: "We want to stimulate thought, get people...
...number of imaginative mutations. Last week, after studying nearly two dozen designs, the negotiators at last agreed on the shape of the table: it will be round. A few days later, they sat down as a group for the first time to get on with the deadly serious business of seeking a peace settlement...
...coast that morning in 1966 a U.S. B-52 bomber on a routine nuclear patrol collided with the Strategic Air Command KC-135 tanker that was refueling it. Wreckage rained on Palomares, including three unarmed hydrogen bombs. A fourth bomb fell into the sea. There were no deaths or serious injuries among the villagers, but a U S. airman mumbled in schoolboy Spanish after parachuting to safety: "Ustedes todos muertos [You're all dead]." Because two bombs' casings had cracked, several thousand airmen and sailors spent 44 days carrying away almost six acres of topsoil and plowing under...
Chile is gripped by the worst, longest drought in its history, a crisis so serious that President Eduardo Frei has declared it a "national catastrophe." The drought, now in its 20th month, followed three years of earthquakes, floods and destructive storms. The harried Frei has seen his drive for progress stalled by natural disaster after disaster, as well as by stubborn political opposition and splits in his ruling Christian Democrat Party. Says he: "The drought is worse than an earthquake. An earthquake produces panic, but reconstruction means work. A drought does not produce panic, but neither does it provide work...
...just as serious about having my paintings not mean anything as abstractionists are about having theirs mean something," says Jean Jones Jackson, a Connecticut matron who taught herself to draw during a bout with TB 15 years ago. "I can't bear anything symbolic." Jackson protests that she paints only small pictures because her technique is too poor to allow her to paint big ones. In fact, her pettiness is a positive dimension, making what might otherwise be a fairly conventional mix of Rene Magritte and Grandma Moses seem witty, bizarre and remote...