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...Dating has not always been an accepted norm. Our "memories" of the past are of a romantic period in which dating took on a greater social importance. My mother remarks that, when she attended Penn in the mid-1960s, she had dates with three people in a single day. (My mother happened to be an unabashed flirt...
...together. Others point to the growing number of women scientists and suggest that they may be more willing than their male colleagues to take love seriously. Says Elaine Hatfield, the author of Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology, and History: "When I was back at Stanford in the 1960s, they said studying love and human relationships was a quick way to ruin my career. Why not go where the real work was being done: on how fast rats could run?" Whatever the reasons, science seems to have come around to a view that nearly everyone else has always taken...
Supporters of this measure are taking a beating even though the average U.S. pump price of $1.16 per gal., when adjusted for inflation, is the lowest since the mid-1960s. (The cost includes 20 cents per gal. for state and local levies.) Moreover, each penny increase in the federal tax raises about $1 billion in revenues. Trouble is, the tax has far fewer friends than enemies, including Clinton, who is wary of measures that might put him between Americans and their cars. It is also the most politically volatile form of energy tax, because it is the most visible...
...tender off-beat quality of the romance between Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) and Paul Varjak (George Peppard, perhaps better known to younger viewers as a member of the A-team) is a stimulus to budding and full-blooming romance alike. And the incredible luminosity of the shots of 1960s New York combined with the timeless, inimitable glamour of Hepburn herself make "Breakfast at Tiffany's" a wonderful antidote to the drizzle of Cambridge in February...
...1950s it was the beatniks, staging a coffeehouse rebellion against the Leave It to Beaver conformity of the Eisenhower era. In the 1960s the hippies arrived, combining antiwar activism with the energy of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Now a new subculture is bubbling up from the underground, popping out of computer screens like a piece of futuristic HYPERTEXT (see margin...