Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern Hinduism claims to include all other beliefs and practices, from crude animism to the most exalted metaphysical speculation. On this vast spiritual menu the individual Hindu can choose the divine nourishment he likes best, and it is all equally nutritious-provided that he swallows it seriously enough. And, suggest the Hindus, since Christian practice (if not Christian theology) is on the Hindu bill of fare, it is wrong for Western evangelists to urge converts to leave Hinduism in order to become Christians...
...eager-beaver ways. U.P. coverage of run-of-the-mine news is severely hobbled by its low-budget policies, and by the fact that the A.P. has the first chance at the news developed by its 1.750 member newspapers and thus, in effect, draws on a vast pool of news that no wire service could produce independently. The U.P. has no such re-use agreement with client newspapers in the U.S., and as a result often ignores or skimps many solid, second-string stories; in covering state governments, for example, or long-drawn stories such as murder trials...
...What is a truly free society, and how can such a society be maintained?" Vast as these questions are, the Fund for the Republic announced last week that with the help of ten men it would try to find some answers. The ten consultants will meet several times a year, direct and discuss research into how various modern institutions-e.g., the labor union, the giant corporation, mass communications and private pressure groups-affect the workings of freedom and justice...
...newly arrived marvels of "an age when the buttons push themselves" but also "the frustration of displaced workers and the cool, four-day-week visions of scientists, labor leaders and industrialists. The machines alone made exciting viewing: contraptions that land airplanes automatically, spot cancerous tissue through the microscope, run vast chemical plants, tell at a glance the position of every plane over the northeastern U.S. plus their speed, altitude and identity. Some of the automatons create jobs and whole industries-but also the immediate problem of displaced workmen and the long-run challenge...
...mechanical behemoths, such jobs as the Carquinez cut are only a warmup for the greatest road-building challenge in U.S. history: a vast, 16-year highway-building program that will crisscross the nation with a 41,000-mile interstate superhighway network,* plus thousands of miles of state and local roads. The program will be the largest public-works project in history, dwarfing the construction of the Roman road system and the Great Wall of China. The interstate network will reach into every corner of the U.S.-75% of it over new routes-to link 42 state capitals...