Digital Extra: The Journal's 175th Anniversary

07.21.2004

Quotes

In a word -- it was a mixed up 10 years. Progress outweighed decline in a material sense. But some decried losses in other areas of the human experience. Everything appeared to be getting bigger, including the problems. Said a prominent sociologist who did not want to be identified: "We seem to have more of everything. But I don't think we're any happier."

-- From a 1969 Bulletin story, summing up the 1960s.