Word: undergo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What has happened to the U.S. economy, said Anderson, is no recession but "fundamental readjustments: I refer to the fact that the economic environment of 1960 is a new environment. After almost 20 years of recurrent inflationary pressures, it is understandable that a free economy would have to undergo some deep-seated adjustments once appropriate fiscal and monetary policies had struck down both the fear and the fact of inflation." The adjustments, added Anderson, "provide the base for a long period of sustainable, noninflationary growth...
...reactionary Republicans experience a "liberal hour," it may well be that radical Democrats undergo a corresponding "conservative hour" each election year. If the obsolete man must electoral purposes accept the twentieth century, the extreme liberal must similar purposes swallow an unattractively large dose of nineteenth century Horatio Alger. In the national conventions, both parties seem to take decisive and conscious move toward the center, leaving on the one flank disappointed Goldwaterites and on the other disgruntled Stevensonians. It matters very little that both heroes have closed ranks with their parties; the "real" Republicans and the "real" Democrats are still...
...much tenderer age, in Caesar and Cleopatra. Shakespeare did not present us here with an exalted love: Cleopatra is a nymphomaniac; and sex is, for Antony, just an animalistic gratification. Neither of the lovers is a noble person who experiences a tragic "fall" or deterioration. And we do not undergo a catharsis through "pity and fear" by witnessing their death. Nowhere in the play is death regarded as something terrible; we are not sad when Cleopatra takes her life, but rather rejoice in this final triumph she wreaks over Octavius. Both the lovers evince a death-wish...
...surprised that educated men, who are presumably aware of history, can believe that mankind is able to undergo a basic change in character-for the better or for the worse...
...compact will be a bigger (190 in. long) brother of the Valiant, will use the same six-cylinder, inclined (30° angle) engine as the Valiant. This engine has been so successful that Chrysler will use it on all Valiants, Darts and Plymouths next year. The big Plymouth will undergo major styling changes...