Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans have always had a certain Manichaean attitude toward other nations-and indeed toward life itself. There was light and darkness, good and evil, success or failure-and no other choices, even within ourselves. The whole trend of American history and character has made us believe that an individual can be anything he aspires to be (can "go to heaven if he wants to"). That is a heady belief until he fails; then failure is all the more bitter because it is his own fault. The nation as a whole can do anything it aspires to, including transcend history...
...Ecumenopolis. Doxiadis invariably supplied the framework for those discussions: ekistics. He felt that the world was rushing toward increasingly disorderly urbanization and sprawl. Conceding that the trend was inexorable, he insisted that growth could be guided and made rational-but only if all elements of city building were treated together. He therefore urged architects, planners and engineers to get into ekistical harness with geographers, meteorologists, sociologists and economists. By the year 2100, Doxiadis said, such a collaboration could create "Ecumenopolis," an orderly, beautiful city of perhaps 25 billion people that would virtually cover the continents...
...entering the national government. We are not in a hurry. At this stage we believe it should take the shape of a constructive relationship in Parliament. We do not propose national elections at present. However, we ask all the democratic parties to respect the trend indicated by the vote...
...articles, and the back is devoted to entertainment listings. One of the issue's most notable traits is its squarish, Sunday-supplement size (11 in. by 13 in.). "I predict that Rolling Stone and New York will switch to our large, stapled format," Coppola says. "I predict a trend...
...great service by writing about his work intelligently and with passion, but he did not "tell" Pollock how to paint. (That dubious privilege would be reserved for weaker artists in the '60s, who wanted to attach themselves to Greenberg's by then mythical aura as a trend spotter.) In any case, Wolfe is inept at dealing with thought, and his account of Steinberg's and Greenberg's criticism is utterly garbled. He cannot treat their writings as argument, only as manipulation. He seems not to have read them, only read about them. He imagines, for instance...