Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranks fifth in the world (after the U.S., Russia, Japan and West Germany), needed to be modernized and reorganized to stop wasteful duplication. No one could dispute the fact that many of the plants are overstaffed, turn out shod dy, overpriced products, and are losing money. But many critics wonder if nationalization is the solution; Britain's other nationalized industries, notably airlines and railroads, have gotten sicker, not healthier, under state management. Besides, the timing seemed inauspicious for a Prime Minister who is busy wooing the Common Market with boasts that his Labor government is an aggressive champion...
...Shortage. With cab crime on the front page day after day, New Yorkers have begun to think anew about taxis. Complaints that drivers are rude, ignore hails and refuse to take Negroes to Harlem are familiar: the police department gets 500 of them per month. What New Yorkers really wonder about, as they try in vain to get a cab during rush hour or rainstorm, is whether or not cabs are becoming scarcer...
...troops extend their operations in Viet Nam, especially in the Central Highlands, the Viet Cong have found an ally in an especially severe form of malaria resistant to the most potent drugs. Now an Army doctor, Major Peter J. Bartelloni, reports in the A.M.A. Journal that the wonder druggists have done it again. A new, long-acting sulfa, sulformethoxine, developed in Britain, has sent the cure rate soaring and, just as dramatically, reduced the relapse rate...
Second, you wonder whether our vital interests are best protected by our growing commitment...
...also produced a new breed of critics whose function is not to enunciate or defend standards but to be explicators and publicists for the new. Rothenstein, once a champion of innovation himself, now complains: "Scarcely anything, when it is quite new, however manifestly idiotic, is forthrightly condemned." Small wonder. Past critics were thoroughly cowed and browbeaten, not unjustly, for their classic misjudgments, beginning with the scorn neaped on Manet's Olympia and culminating in the ridicule showered on the impressionists, the Fauves and the cubists. Critics now live in terror of seeming square. The trouble is, as one anticritic...