Attributed to Mark Twain
Friends dropped off a 1971 edition of LIFE magazine last week. Perusing its pages has been alternately comforting and distressing. Most of the headlines and articles could have been reprinted today: “The Four-Day Work Week” and “Our Public Lands Up for Grabs,” for example.
And then there’s the op-ed by Thomas Griffith that starts out with, “An optimist is someone who believes that the time will shortly come when Americans again…