Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story on Bach [Dec, 27] was the best Christmas cover story for a long, long time. Every word brought illumination and joy; you had the symmetry, the inevitable Tightness in every part. You have an art of your own. I left a reading of every word with a sense of completeness; the Bach violin partitas began sounding through my mind as I got up. You caught the heart of the Bachian Restoration in a magnificent end-of-year cadenza. What is better for space travel than the accompaniment of Bach? Long live Bach...
...entrenching the forces under attack. As the year ended, a different sort of revolution suddenly forced itself into the world's imagination. It was represented by the flight around the moon-perhaps the only event of the year to which, in the devalued coinage of the language, the word revolutionary might still be properly applied...
...going to rise or fall together," says Walter Rybeck, associate director of the two-year urban problems study. The project's head: Paul Douglas, former Democratic Senator from Illinois. The 325,000-word report finds that the number of Americans below the poverty level ($3,000 annual income for an urban family of four) fell from 39 million to 26 million between 1958 and 1966. Even so, it notes, the gaps in U.S. society continued to grow. "The central cities increasingly are becoming white-collar employment centers," the report says, "while the suburbs are becoming the job-employment areas...
...capitalism. It was democracy against totalitarianism. In 1959, he ventured a prediction for the future of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: "If we and the Soviet Union escape war in the next 30 years, we'll both wind up practically with the same economic system. I emphasize the word economic. It will be the welfare state writ large. I hope we won't lose our democracy, and I hope Russia will get more...
...decked the town with posters portraying determined-looking team members and bearing the line, WE'VE GOT A FEW SCORES TO SETTLE. The hoopla sounded nice but, since it was raised by a team that had finished last in its division for two straight years, nobody believed a word of it. Nobody, apparently, except the Bullets. Last week, with a league-leading 24-7 record, the once lowly Bullets were the surprise hotshots of the National Basketball Association...