Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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I read with delight your Jan. 27 report of the case against the woman who bore a child through artificial insemination. Did she commit an act "far less responsible and far less human than adultery," as the learned Archbishop of Canterbury claims? Does it "violate the exclusive union set up...
The French press all but forgot the bombing in their outrage at Bourguiba's move. Foreign Minister Christian Pineau announced that France had offered to negotiate withdrawal of her forces from Tunisia, but only if Bourguiba ceased his "pressure and provocation." Declared Pineau grandiloquently: "France intends to defend her...
On the emotional side the trend is toward lessening parental tension. Instead of a rigid schedule, which prescribed the exact numbers of hours of sleep a youngster must have from year to year, there is now a permissive page simply to record how he sleeps. A stern "Development of Character...
The current boom started when Decca taped the palpitating score by Elmer Bernstein (no kin to Leonard) for The Man With the Golden Arm found itself with an unexpected hit on its hands. Decca is now high on the charts with the soundtrack music of Around the World in 80...
What constitutes the Princeton definition of "wonk" at Bickertime? The traits of a varied species can be most clearly grasped when combined into an extreme, idealized archetype, whose full obnoxious character each empirical individual but partially manifests and only for a brief time. To apprehend the Platonic essence, then, of...