Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the Past. The oldsters who met last week in Miami Beach offered small hope for labor's future. They were too much a part of its past. Most of them had come up through labor's ranks during the '20s and '30s, conquering hard times with a crusading zeal. Most of them won badges of labor honor in the form of busted heads and bloodied noses during the days of labor's surge to power...
...Contemporary Science), who built the first device capable of taking multiple X-ray photographs of the human heart beating, and was one of the first to discover radiation's therapeutic value in the treatment of tumors; of radiation poisoning (a toxic dose, which he absorbed in his 20s, continued to poison his body until it finally caused his death); in Frankfurt...
Whacks, But No Tips. The Zantzingers set out for a gay social evening of dancing at Baltimore's annual Spinsters' Ball, a white-tie affair in which passed-over postdebutantes in their late 20s take another try at meeting the right sort of men. With another couple, the Zantzingers stopped off for preball dinner at downtown Baltimore's Eager House...
Revolt Against What? Unlike the generation of the '20s and '30s, both of which were in revolt in one form or another against the bourgeois family, Salinger's quiet ones are in revolt against nothing but the "phoniness'" in human life itself, she points out. In fact, the family has become an enclave of private and very special spiritual excellence -specifically the nonphony Glass family, of which Seymour the elder, who has undergone martyrdom-by-suicide. was guru. Rejecting its patents of superiority, Miss McCarthy sees the Glass family as "a terrifying narcissus pool...
Hayter. now 60. started out to be a scientist rather than an artist. He graduated from London University with honors in chemistry, did research in organic sulphur compounds, worked in Iran for three years with an oil company. When he decided in his early 20s that he wanted to devote his life to art. he found his knowledge of chemistry enabled him to bring new techniques to the old, nearly moribund art of etching...