Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Discontent with taxes is nothing new in history. Over the centuries, it has been an explosive force. Both the American and French revolutions were brought on in part by taxpayer disaffection. But today's tax-revision tide is essentially different from the elemental discontent shared by all burdened taxpayers throughout history. What is astir in the U.S. is a sophisticated discontent?the nation has scrutinized itself and found a deep but correctable flaw...
...orange glory of dawn, but he is not interested in the glare of high noon. He suggests the movement inherent in even the still life, but shuns swift outward action. Rather than a storm at sea, he prefers to paint the glistening emptiness of the time when the tide has run out. There is activity in a Knaths painting, but it is contained in a marvelous calm: mood and movement flow, one from the other, as in a slow-motion ballet...
...alarm, with the more confusing aspects of the U.N. expedition (such as the presumed communications failure which led the casques bleus to take the city of Jadotville after U Thant's order not to, and Dr. Bunche's subsequent implied endorsement of that victory) cannot really deflect the growing tide of Belgian consent...
...tide of post-Christmas tourists rolled in, predictions were for a record 1,600,000 vacationers during the November-through-March season, more than enough to fill the city's five miles of beaches, 1,200 hotels and boardinghouses and scores of nightclubs. Some vacationers went south because they could not afford a European trip- "conditions" being what they are. But most were working-class families determined not to forgo their one gala spree of the year...
...demonstrated such warmth, simplicity and charm that he has won the hearts of Catholics, Protestants and non-Christians alike. "The Protestant Christians think that they now have the best Pope they have had in centuries," comments German Catholic Theologian Herbert Vorgrimler. The Pope's recent illness raised a tide of concern around the world. "If we should pray for anyone in the world today,'' says Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich, "we should pray for Pope John. He is a good...