Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...identification with militarism, license, revolt, sadism or criminality. Worse, the newscaster's carefully modulated vocal intonation of emotional neutrality carries a powerful subliminal, nonverbal "message" to impressionable minds about society's indifference to aggression and human suffering. This is an insidious attack on society's age-old weapon of restraint: collective moral indignation. The so-called "truth" is very difficult to communicate accurately. It must only be broadcast after careful evaluation in the light of total communications impact, and with full awareness of the "other and distorted messages" conveyed by carelessness or sensationalism regarding timing, balance, intonation...
...Henry Tucker, a Hamilton banker, the United Bermudians took power in 1963, and since then have banned all segregation, expanded educational spending 250% and broadly integrated their own party. Last year they presided over a Constituent Assembly that drew up a new constitution, lowered the voting age from 25 to 21 and put far more power in the hands of the elected government. At the same time, they have also expanded the tourist industry and brought prosperity to black and white alike. There is now one telephone for every two persons. Some 90% of the island...
...segregation, want to limit the number of white immigrant workers from Britain. "It is going to really get hot this summer," Parliamentary Candidate Austin Thomas warned a rally in Hamilton two weeks ago, "and it is going to be P.L.P. heat." A few hours later, a band of teen-age Negro hoodlums began throwing bottles and rocks at some police on Front Street. When more police reinforcements arrived, a full-scale riot erupted...
...Harvard Lampoon died recently at its home, 44 Bow Street, Cambridge, Mass. Its age was 92 and it had been ill for some time...
...faculty members who continue to lead what amounts to evangelical campaigns urging students to turn in their draft cards and defy their government's Selective Service process. These men are, of course, well beyond the reach of the Selective Service Act. They speak from the safe sanctuary of age or physical impairments. The morality of their advice is highly questionable...