Word: statusful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silent spells with his now-famous "new look" press conference, during which he prowled a makeshift stage in the East Room of the White House like a restless tiger, exuding confidence and control. Before an A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in December, he lit into the Republican "wooden soldiers of the status quo" who were poleaxing his programs in Congress...
Hills & Valleys. Part of his problem is the rustic image he projects in an age when the U.S. has finally acknowledged its status as a nation of cities. Though Johnson is a man of the 20th century (born in 1908), he nonetheless seems the product of a more distant past. His politics and philosophy were annealed in the inhospitable forges of the Dust Bowl and the Depression. To the generation that spawned underground movies and acid-rock music, he often seems as remote as Betelgeuse. Hippies, college students and Eastern sophisticates are not the only people who look...
...conventional way to build a "status" office building in Manhattan today is to erect a slender tower set back on a giant open plaza. But the Ford Foundation is the world's largest philanthropic organization, dedicated, among other things, to "fostering the realization of individual human dignity and worth." It gives away $300 million a year, much of it for studies to improve city living and architecture, and for the arts...
...riches between imported consumer goods (food, clothing, shelter) for their populace, new facilities such as water systems, hospitals and other public buildings, and investment (including U.S. and West German bonds). Saudi Arabia, which had hardly any schools ten years ago, is now building 300 a year. Argentina owes its status as the only South American country with a 1967 payments surplus to good corn and meat prices on world markets plus pruning of its government deficit and an economic stabilization plan that has lured large amounts of foreign investment. U.S. war purchases and spending by U.S. visitors have helped...
What William James called the "rich thicket of reality" is thoroughly explored in this book, which is subtitled "Thoughts During a Useless Time." Its author, Paul Goodman, is a novelist, poet, essayist, psychologist and social critic whose book Growing Up Absurd gave him guru status with a large segment of American youth. Five Years is a self-analytical journal of random thoughts, jotted down from 1955 to 1960, when Goodman was between 45 and 50 years old. It is a ruthlessly honest confession in the manner of Rousseau: Goodman recounts how he scrounged for food, sex and love while materially...