Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many elements?including merchandising, show business and crass exploitation of people's credulity. Department stores across the U.S. are mounting astrological promotions. Woolworth's is pushing a full line of zodiacal highball and cocktail glasses and paper napkins. Bulls, goats, crabs and scorpions are beginning to embellish everything from children's clothes to writing paper; St. Crispin in Manhattan is offering its Park Avenue clientele "astronotes" for invitations. One Manhattan beauty parlor boasts a resident astrologer and twelve special hairdos, one for each sign of the zodiac. A perfume manufacturer is doing well with twelve zodiac scents...
...Rick, now almost 29, was married six years ago and has three children. He is currently making singing appearances on the nightclub circuit...
...convicted draft resister, with the preface: "He is going to prison for three years. The reason is that he resisted selective service and the draft and militarism in general." The second sentence was cut. Also deleted were such soporific bits as Comic Jackie Mason's gag about children playing doctor. There really must be something to the game, Mason said, because "Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if he wanted to become...
...subject of the lecture, her third in the museum's annual Man and Nature series, was social change. Dr. Mead argued that primitive societies barely perceived change; a child repeated almost exactly the lives of his parents. In more advanced societies, which changed faster, children often abandoned their parents' ways and modeled their behavior on teachers or heroes. Now, however, the kind of change fostered by technology has removed even those models. Youths today, she argued, are like children of wilderness pioneers-the first natives in a new world. "For the first time in human history," she said...
...equal opportunity, she favors a coed draft, although she would not give guns to women because "they are too fierce." Recently she has been recommending that Americans accept their society's evolution toward two different types of marriage: "individual marriage" for young couples not intending to have children and "parental marriage" for couples desiring offspring...