Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States is a land of many languages, dialects, accents and vocabularies. English is not necessarily the first language of the American Indian or the Chinese American, the Spanish American or the American Jew, all of whom inherited ancient tongues. But apart from children's pig Latin and the pidgin English still employed occasionally in Hawaii, one of the oldest invented languages in the U.S. was devised and survives in the California hamlet of Boonville. TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler visited there recently and tried to speak with the people. Here is his report...
...famed Lenin library were catalogued under the letter I, for "In famous U.S.-Persian relations." Such a lack of the generalist's sane overview often made American society, as seen from Moscow, something of a mystery. Was racial violence, for example, a sign that it was coming apart at the seams...
...United Presbyterian Church, sees his duties as primarily pastoral. To give young church dissidents a greater sense of participation in council affairs, he recently invited 75 staff members to a two-day get-together near Montreux. Told they could speak their minds freely, they proceeded to tear apart everything from the way the council organizes its assemblies to the management of its worldwide programs...
...Still, apart from the analysis, a new Greenwich Village apartment and a pool table, he remains a champion of inconspicuous consumption. The night of the Academy awards, Hoffman?nominated for The Graduate?called a friend, Actor Stanley Beck. "It was about 1 o'clock in the morning," says Beck. "The phone rang. It was Dusty. 'Hey, can you pick me up?' he says. There he is, out at the Academy awards the night he's been nominated for an Oscar, and he has no car, no driver, no place to sleep. I told him to take...
...Campaign, "and if the poor workers of the city want rent control they will have to roll over the City Council. We're going to roll over you guys. You have done nothing to stop the Universities. Harvard students will stop Harvard even if we have to tear it apart like Columbia and San Francisco State...