Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such glossy statistics, however, the observer from the East still finds something provincial about California culture; it is overeager, overly dutiful, and beset by a local boosterism mixed with inferiority feelings. In this area, as in many others, Californians are victims of what Sociologist David Riesman calls "masochistic narcissism?...
There is considerable debate about the value of these encounter groups. Some establishments, like the famed Esalen Institute at Big Sur, are rightly praised by reputable psychiatrists. Other observers argue that it is foolish to believe in salvation through collective bloodletting. Berkeley English Professor Frederick C. Crews, for one, calls...
There is always hope that the solutions to California's human problems can also be found. Meanwhile, in the search for new answers and guidelines, California is still faltering?and is paying in human terms. Lord James Bryce, the great English jurist and student of American life, suggested as much...
As the interest in Art Deco grows, some collectors are beginning to worry that prices for vintage items will soar. In some respects, they have less to worry about than did fanciers of Art Nouveau. Because so many of its designs were originally intended for mass production, Art Deco has...
Egeberg proposed a radical solution, involving nothing less than a change in prevailing attitudes about marriage and children. The notion that everyone should marry and raise a family was important in an era when infant-mortality rates were high and life expectancy short. Now it is important, he warned, to...