Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick dazzles the eye and bends the mind in this space-age parable of the secret of life...
...survived subversion. The cold war is passé. Viet Nam is something to be settled, not won. So Nixon told them what they wanted to hear. "Tonight I do not promise the millennium in the morning. I don't promise that we can eradicate poverty and end discrimination in the space of four or even eight years. But I do promise action. And a new policy for peace abroad, a new policy for peace and progress and justice at home...
...Yellow Submarine. Up and down the glittering beach front, there was hardly a hotel with closet space to rent. The Alaskan delegation was quartered in the South Seas Hotel; landlocked Kansas was assigned to the Sea Gull. Wisconsin's delegates made a felicitous choice in the Crown, whose Roaring 20s Club should make Milwaukeeans in particular feel right at home with its nickel beer. Unhappiest of all were the Pennsylvanians, who landed in the Diplomat, 14 miles up the beach and closer to Fort Lauderdale than to the hall. To spare himself the long trip, Pennsylvania's Governor...
Nowadays the radicals of the left as well as the right reflexively condemn the Federal Government for its size, remoteness and unresponsiveness. Between the extremes, there has been a gradual shift toward the view that while a strong central government alone can oversee such programs as space, defense and interstate highways, local problems can be more responsively and responsibly handled by cities or counties or states. Most liberals still feel that a strong Federal Government is essential when it comes to world issues, as well as education, jobs and housing, and doubt that local governments can be trusted to ensure...
...August newsletter, McLuhan allots only a sentence or two to a page and calls them "instant posters." Thus the 34 pages consist mostly of white space. The purpose of this, states the preface, is to keep the words from "bumping into, and obscuring each other. To monumentalize them-make them stand out in three-dimensional relief-allow them to be felt, touched, tasted, chewed over...