Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speak English better than Tagalog. He sees the conglomeration of Spanish and native architecture, spruced up with American modern. His system of government is tailored after that of the U.S.; yet he does not feel truly American. So he stands there, bewildered, asking himself: 'What am I? Do I belong to Asia, the Pacific? Or am I closer to the West than either of these...
...records (77%) and travels extensively (nine out of ten families took trips in 1965, 27% of them outside the country). Mr. Subscriber and his family enjoy all kinds of outdoor activity: three out of four swim, four out of ten bowl and the same number play golf, and 34% belong to a country club or other sporting club. And TIME families are hospitable, too. In the two weeks before the questionnaires were sent, 74% entertained guests in their home; 81% serve liquor, with Scotch, gin, bourbon and vodka the preferred drinks...
...Back Pages. "Television," says ABC's Howard "K. Smith by way of explanation, "is not just a picture medium. It is pictures, plus words, plus personality." When the words and the personality belong to a Walter Cronkite, they generate what CBS Vice President Gordon Manning calls "believability." Talking to the camera as if it were an attentive stranger, Cronkite projects an air of friendly formality, of slightly distant courtliness. His millions of viewers at the other end of the tube respond with consistent warmth...
...will differ sharply with the A.B.A.'s pretrial proposals on the ground that American judges lack power to discipline police and news media until a case comes to trial. For one thing, the Constitution's separation of governmental powers limits the judicial branch in controlling police, who belong to the executive branch. For another, the First Amendment precludes "direct controls of the news media by a governmental scheme of legislation or judicial regulation." The solution, argues Medina, is for "the judicial establishment to put its own house in order...
Even the name Vienna sets up resonances that belong to the past: candlelight, slow waltz music, fiacres, lindentree parks, the Danube and the Prater -a capital jewel in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, doomed to obliteration by transitional winds. The old Vienna has its surviving spirits, none sturdier than Heimito von Doderer, at 70 Austria's foremost novelist. A courtly and playful Viennese, Von Doderer remembers with fondness the city as it was half a century ago. The Waterfalls of Slunj is his love song to that twilight time, the first of an intended four-volume epic...