Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rourke was scheduled to begin his new job this week, but decided instead to take a teaching position at Stanford University. Accepting Stanford's offer will allow him to continue living in California, where he has worked recently on the state's war on poverty...
Since the 1964 Free Speech riots at Berkeley, student protests have upset life at dozens of campuses across the nation. Yet one eminent educator firmly believes that the California protest signified not so much a wave of the future as the beginning of an end. He should know; he is Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California...
...newspapers dutifully reported the figure. But one reader was dissatisfied. "Estimating the size of a crowd may be the last area of fantasy in the newspaper business," observed Herbert A. Jacobs, 63, a longtime Wisconsin newspaperman who now lectures at the University of California. Jacobs set out to make a more scientific calculation...
...current issue of Encounter, "the university has become the training ground for artists as well as art teachers. This is a new situation, and the more quickly its potentialities are recognized, the better." To a considerable extent, universities are beginning to deal with this situation: campuses from Yale to California have acquired staffs of practicing artists as well as art historians. Nowhere is the picture brighter than at Manhattan's Hunter College, a city-run school that has, with a minimum of fuss, assembled one of the nation's liveliest art faculties...
Such problems are not exclusive with the poor. Last week, during a private lecture at a California resort for the well-to-do, a psychiatrist asked 30 assembled mothers whether they would give birth-control pills to their teen-age daughters. Only a few said no. Most were undecided. One-third said yes, definitely-and one mother announced that she was already slipping the pill into her daughter's breakfast milk...