Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nice of the Queen to include Scottish Novelist (The Mandelbaum Gate) Muriel Spark, 45, on the New Year Honors List, naming her to the Order of the British Empire. Nice, but not nearly nice enough, complained the ladies of British letters, who regarded the O.B.E., one step from the bottom of the honors, as a damn with faint praise. Sniped Rebecca West, herself a more lofty Dame Commander of the Order: "I cannot help but think that the persons responsible for recommending the award to Muriel Spark of an O.B.E. must have been actuated by a desire to make...
...Liners. Television and cinema have been edging toward this wedding for years. The first step was for Hollywood to take over production of almost all prime-time entertainment; while 84% of nightly TV was done live in 1955, barely 5% of it is now. As hour-long shows came into vogue, film makers learned the knack of the two-part story, which could then be stitched together and peddled in Europe as a Walt Disney or Man from U.N.C.L.E. feature film. At the same time, TV programmers discovered that, say, a ten-year-old Danny Kaye film could outdraw...
...alliance between or among the present political candidates in Brazil for the purpose of presenting a united front and thus forcing the military regime to step down...
...analytic essays take a step back from actual revolutionary experience, and raise some questions about revolution in general. In "Roots and Direction of Nigerian Revolution," F. Chukwuma Obinani shows that the political order must be relevant to economic needs. Obinani feels that the government was overthrown, although it maintained law and order, because the political system did not try to fulfill the economic needs...
...People really take it? Can they endure all the abrasive relationships and anomalous demands-the psychological subway wheels-that the "real world" has to offer? Can they, as a first step, accommodate their own parents? "The generational gap is wider than I've ever seen it in my lifetime," says Harvard's David Riesman. Predicts Britain's Leslie Paul, whose autobiography gave the phrase "angry young man" to the world in 1951: "The relations of the generations may become the central social issue of the next 50 years, as the relations between the classes have been...