Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full failure of our society can be seen in your article on Lerner and Loewe. What standards have we set that men who have made their mark are forced or compelled as peasant boys to boast, to proclaim their sexual prowess? Have we reached a state where stud ability has become the endorsement of a successful career...
Under the Y's left arm, in the Western Region (pop. 8,000,000), live the most advanced of all Nigerians-the Yoruba tribesmen, who worship 400 different deities, including Shango, god of thunder, and boast a centuries-old tradition of political organization...
High Scenery. Many of the small colleges boast magnificent surroundings. Colorado is in the shadow of Pikes Peak. Washington State's Whitman (fine pre-med training) thrives near wheat fields and ski slopes. Other "unknown" colleges are in lively U.S. cities: New Orleans' Sophie Newcomb is the women's branch of Tulane University; and Washington. D.C.'s Trinity is a topflight Roman Catholic girls' school that emphasizes science and languages, including Russian and Chinese. New York City's Wagner College has a double feature: a hilltop rural campus on Staten Island with a sweeping...
...onrush of another of the overnight emotional flip-flops characteristic of Japan's volatile people. It celebrated Kennedy's election with free beer for all males who could prove they were the same age as the Senator. In Tokyo offices, "I'm 43, too" became the boast of junior executives on the rise. Suddenly in the limelight was onetime Imperial Navy Lieut. Commander Kohei Hanami, who broke into print rejoicing that when his destroyer sliced a U.S. PT boat in two in 1943, Lieut, (j.g.) Jack Kennedy had providentially survived...
...being forced into either of the world blocs. For the U.S. the only challenge that exists is to understand the Latin American, and then to aid Castro in his attempts to bring to the majority of Cubans--suppressed for so many decades--the kind of life we have and boast of. And indeed, this is the challenge given us by all Latin America, which will one day decide to wait no longer. Gregory Biss...