Word: cheeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S editors. Beside Flaming Youth, Prohibition, Greenwich Village sofas, Gertrude Stein, and stubble-bearded Marxists, this generation probably seems like a mass-membership of the Union League Club. Youth attends church, belongs to the P.T.A., works on community programs, writes its Congressman (admittedly with tongue in cheek), will probably vote out badly governed government next year...
...year's cry against youth when he told of a tour through New York dance halls. TIME quoted him: "In one dance hall. . . we saw between 5,000 and 6,000 young men and women . . . locked tightly in each other's embrace, in many cases with the cheek of the girl against the cheek...
...Continental last year, failed with it on radio before he talked KNBH into giving the show a cautious try on TV. As writer and producer as well as The Continental's only actor, 39 year-old Cesana insists he plays his part with a tongue-in-cheek seriousness, hopes only "to furnish the ladies with the illusion of an escapade while they remain in the sanctity and safety of their own homes." j Of the ladies' husbands, he says handsomely: "American men have such a wonderful sense of humor...
Unlike most of his Puritan contemporaries, Williams was tolerant of those who did not believe as he did.* His Christian always turned the other cheek: "How quietly, without the swellings of revenge and wrath, should we bear the daily injuries, reproaches, persecutings, etc., from the hands of men who pass away and wither (it may be before night) like grass, or as the smoke on the chimney...
...still only ten when he took his first long trip (to Oregon to live with an uncle) and met his first traveler's disappointment. "The Rocky Mountains," he noted with disillusionment, "were made mostly of dirt." From his uncle he learned a modification of Quakerism: "Turn your other cheek once, but if he smites it, then punch him!" From Cornishmen in the Southwest goldfields he learned fine points that had been neglected at Stanford engineering school. (To sleep warm in a wet mine, curl up in a steel wheelbarrow heated by several candles underneath.) At 23, he was helping...