Soon it will be possible to extend human life indefinitely. After thousands of years of desperate struggle against death and deepest anguish at its inevitability there is at last .hope of winning that struggle. In research centers around the world efforts are now accelerating to overcome aging and, in time, death itself.
Published by the New York Times on September 24th, 1974
What elsewhere are regarded as problems, in the United States become magnified into crises-the urban crisis, the school crisis, the dollar crisis, the environmental crisis, the energy crisis, the Watergate crisis.
Published by the New York Times on June 28, 1973
The Arab-Israeli quarrel is developing into a monumental bore. While East and West Europeans, North and South Koreans, Indians and Pakistanis, American and Russians, Chinese and Japanese are all rapidly patching up their differences, the Arabs and Israelis, acting like adolescents, refuse to resolve their wasteful 25-year-old brawl.
Published by the New York Times on September 4th, 1972
This is the most promising and revolutionary era in our entire evolution. A spirit of hope and commitment is surging around the world. But in the United States a deep gloom hangs over the people. Americans are acquiring a reputation as the world’s greatest cynics and pessimists.
Published by the New York Times on July 3, 1971
In recent years, several countries of the Middle East have embarked upon extensive land–reform and other needed programs, which are launched vigorously and enthusiastically, but which soon run into obstacles and resistance and then slowly peter out.
Published by the New York Times on November 3, 1963