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Hubert Humphrey once characterized the wise Senator as "one who reads the New Republic frequently and takes its advice not at all." The "N.R." celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, and it seems a good time to ask why Humphrey's remark rings so true. Though carefully read, widely respected, and perhaps even Established, the New Republic has never really been influential...
...editors have given the 50th anniversary edition the pretentious title, "The Great Society--Creating America," and have arranged the contributing essays into officious sounding categories like Economy, Youth, Environment, etc. Aside from these formalities, however, the issue is as relaxed and discursive as any. TRB, for instance, rambles about as brilliantly as ever, finally declaring his "congenital optimism" in America's future...
...urban renewal, taking considerable pride in the fact that Time Inc. has played a key role in major rehabilitation of an area in the world's greatest city. In 1957, when work started on the new TIME & LIFE Building on Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas between 50th and 51st Streets, this new extension of Rockefeller Center was in a neighborhood scarred by shabby old buildings dating back to the era of the Sixth Avenue Elevated. During the seven years since then, 16 other major buildings have been completed or started at nearby locations which, before TIME ventured...
...Biscay, the French press is alive with rumors that De Gaulle may accede to Pétain's wish to be interred at Verdun. So he may, but le chef has been angered by the buzz-buzz. The earliest date for reburial is now the 50th anniversary of the battle of Verdun...
...they acknowledged five tumultuous curtain calls, it was hard to believe that Ruth St. Denis is 87 years old, that Ted Shawn is 72. Yet the dance they performed, choreographed by Shawn, taken from a poem by St. Denis, was in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary. It was the latest of countless new works that have been premiered at Jacob's Pillow, the sylvan retreat in Massachusetts' rolling Berkshire hills that Ted Shawn founded 31 years...