text: David W. Dunlap wrote in 2001 that the 1964 fair was still ingrained in the public imagination, even though it had been "a tailfin-tacky celebration of jet-age technological hubris" and an "unhappy final chapter" to Moses's career as New York City's main urban planner. According to the author Lawrence R. Samuel, the fair's motto of "peace through understanding" was overshadowed by the fair's focus on profits, and a Bloomberg reporter similarly wrote in 2013 that the fair had been dominated by its corporate exhibitors. Joseph Tirella wrote in 2013 that, even though "peace through understanding continues to elude us", the United States had become more ethnically diverse due to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which was enacted just before the fair ended.
  The New York Daily News wrote in 2012 that the remaining structures from the fair "have provided [Flushing Meadows–Corona Park] with some of its most striking structures". For the fair's 50th anniversary, Smithsonian magazine wrote that the fair's "limitless faith in material and social progress" had been counteracted by social upheaval in the U.S. that took place during the mid-1960s. The New York Times wrote in 2018 that the fair was not only a showcase for futuristic technology, but also a place where "foreigners could broadcast their best wares and fairgoers could catch a glimpse into their far-off cultures."
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