Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...western societies as late as the 18th century, and in many societies even today, the transition from childhood to adulthood has been early, brief, and coercively controlled by inflexible rites of passage or apprenticeships. In these societies, adolescence, as we define it, rarely can occur. One of the extraordinary psychological achievements of industrial and post-industrial societies has been the gradual opening of an opportunity for a real adolescence to a great number of less privileged and less talented young men and women, with all of the rich possibilities for continued development this opening brings. What we have...
...were convicted for selling the 18th issue of the controversial newspaper...
...their way of sneezing or of wearing down their heels that a condemned people can be recognized," wrote the French playwright Jean Giraudoux. In his report on 18th century France in the shadow of the guillotine, Sanche de Gramont, Parisian journalist and historian (The Secret War, The Age of Magnificence), has done a heel measurement and sneeze count on his country's monarchy in its declining years. His conclusion confirms Giraudoux's epigram: The monarchy literally lost its head when it lost its style...
...other variation on the theme, a club member wrote a paper for a popular course on "The English Fishing Trade in the 18th Century." To top off his effort, he cut out a picture of a fish from a National Geographic and pasted it on his title page. The man received an A-for his effort and submitted it to the club file. The next year another man pulled out the paper, retyped it, pasted on the fish to the title page, handed it in, and received an A-. The following year, another club member withdrew the paper, retyped...
...been proof to the current fashion which spares itself the difficulty of replying to Marx by dismissing him as a moralist of this or that persuasion. No one who has read the Paris Manuscripts could deny that there is some truth in their charge; anyone who has glanced at 18th Brumaire or The German Ideology cannot pretend that Marxism begins and ends with an eschatology...