Word: numberless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claimed by the public and used as a source of everything from mythmaking to sheer entertainment. The phenomenon provides glimpses of the subtle human chemistries from which folklore is manufactured. To know how such mythmaking works is to be freed of all surprise when dramatic events evoke numberless theories to account for them or produce songs, plays and novels to celebrate, rehash and elaborate them...
...will have the greatness to bend history itself, but it is from numberless, diverse acts of courage that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands for an ideal...he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression...
...arising from careful guesstimating. Perhaps unnecessarily, Eckstein adds: "There's plenty of room for humility." The humbling failure of scientists to predict surely either the course of nature (as in the weather) or cultural dynamics (as in economic and social change) may be one factor that licenses the numberless irrational prophets who proliferate in today's age of ostensible reason...
...that gained tremendous popularity. The movies too, began to show some shift in outlook among the kids growing up in America. The confused, "unrespectable" heros portrayed on the screen by Dean and Brando were slowly becoming more admired than the incredibly cute, sweet, and superficial characters who inhabited the numberless Doris Day-type movies. Brando and Dean showed that there were some real problems in this country, that the closed society was leaving out many people who just couldn't fit in. Brando's violent portrayals, acting with his body more than with his lines, appeared primitive to many. They...
...author of the Federalist papers might be amazed at the abundant fulfillment of his vision by Americans of the late 1970s. The nation has entered a period of ascendant factionalism, a time when the larger desires of society can scarcely be heard for the insistent clamor of its numberless segments...