Word: existence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country?" retorted Solzhenitsyn, who insisted that he had forbidden the appearance of his works in the West. He added that "we cannot keep silent forever about the crimes of Stalin. These are crimes against millions and they cry out to be exposed. To pretend that they did not exist is to pervert millions of others...
...Since then, Berry said, "the University, in my opinion, is really moving. They seem to have a mental commitment to solve this problem." Berry and Harvard officials agree that two specific problems exist...
...knew it or not we were saying something much more profound than the catchy Lennon tune. All the different and irreconcilable groups, the Weathermen and the McCarthyites, the Panthers and Mayor Washington, were all saying in their own way that we are finding it harder and harder to exist in America. We came to this Southern city with its stupid architecture, this pathetic town of ulcers and unreality to say en masse that we feel like orphans, we feel at odds with ourselves and particularly with this war that has grown out of us (do not make it into...
...doubtful that any one nation can claim more than one great city at any given time-great, after all, is a word that implies uniqueness. It is doubtful, too, that the world itself can contain more than half a dozen great cities at once. Indeed, a great city cannot exist in an unimportant country, which is why Urban Planner John Friedmann of U.C.L.A. prefers to call great cities "imperial cities." London and Paris are still great cities, but they lost some of their luster when world politics shifted to Washington, Moscow and Peking-all of which lack at least...
...beyond definition. Marshall McLuhan and the late Frank Lloyd Wright may have been right in arguing that the city should be replaced by smaller communities. But men, alas and thank God, are never strictly practical. Until people are known by numbers alone, the great city will continue to exist. F. Scott Fitzgerald was speaking of Manhattan, but he might just as well have been talking of London or Paris-or Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon or Justinian's Constantinople. Looking at it from afar, he said, was always to see it "in its first wild promise of all the mystery...