Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...note of our age is a note of interrogation. And the final point is so plain; no skeptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. 'Am I a boy?-Why am I a boy-Why aren't I a chair?-What is a chair?' A child will sometimes ask these sort of questions for two hours"-almost the precise duration of a play...
...like it down here," says Gregg Fawthrop, 18. "There aren't any parents, no one to tell me what to do. You can blow your mind, drink, do anything you like." "Down here" happens to be Ocean City, located on an 8½-mile-long island off the coast of southern New Jersey. But Fawthrop could just as easily have been talking about a dozen other beach communities in the U.S. where high school kids, college students and recent graduates congregate on summer weekends and vacations for sun, sand, suds and sex. It's all there...
...June 3). Its motley of 42 planes airlifts rice to Meo tribesmen beleaguered by Red rebels and might just be flying arms and men for the CIA and the Pentagon. Says Salinger dryly: "In Viet Nam we fly personnel and supplies around the country. Some of the landing strips aren't very far from the Viet Cong operations, but so far-knock wood-we haven't had any planes involved in military operations...
...well, crimson. Imagine Parker's surprise when his young (five sophomores, two juniors) crew went through its first three races undefeated, then won the Eastern Sprint championships-defeating Archrival Yale twice, once in a preliminary heat, again in the finals. Imagine Yale's surprise. "They really aren't that good," insisted Bulldog Oarsman Dave Hathaway, before last week's annual Harvard-Yale race on Connecticut's Thames River. "They may be undefeated, but they're not unbeatable...
Abandoned cars aren't all that is clogging the streets. When New York City police counted up their stubs for the first five months of this year, they discovered that they had handed out 1,750,432 parking tickets, some 300,000 more than last year. But they were horrified to find they had collected nearly $1,000,000 less in fines. Clearly, the scofflaws have taken over. Ten years ago, only 14% of the ticketed parkers ignored traffic summonses; currently, the rate is running...