Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inflation-has not risen at all over the past year. The evidence suggests that consumer demand, which has been partially responsible for inflation, is moderating. And no wonder. The U.S. is currently in the midst of the longest period of non-growth in real take-home pay since World War...
...protection. The Administration has threatened to take unilateral action if it cannot persuade Japan and other trading partners to accept "voluntary" quotas. U.S. action could involve the revoking of textile-tariff concessions that have been granted in the past, or Congress could legislate quotas. Either way, a worldwide trade war might result, provoking retaliation not only by Japan but also by many other nations against a wide range of U.S. goods...
...Spanish Civil War...
...poetry, as in politics, the predominant quality of the man who wrote these lines has not so much been talent or intellect as extraordinary compassion. A near Marxist as well as a poet during the years of the Spanish Civil War, Stephen Spender has worn reasonably well since he served as Auden's slightly junior fellow in the vanguard of English verse. Now an uncomplacent 60, he knows that nothing turns off a young radical quicker than old radicals who say "When I was a boy ..." Yet ironically, compassionately, he sees the New Left making many...
...judgment: "More sympathetic than the Communists, they are their intellectual inferiors." In matters of hunger, illiteracy and overpopulation, "they seem to take very little interest." "Students who attempt to revolutionise society by first destroying the university," Spender adds in a warning, "are like an army which begins a war by wrecking its own base...