Word: contacting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responding to changing ideas about education, strenuously taught them to ask questions and think for themselves while giving them increased freedom in running their own affairs. They were reared in a period when social adjustment had come to be considered a prime virtue, with consequent hastening of children into contact with other children and the early formation of a strong "youth culture...
...another admissions officer, Seamus P. Malin '62, who recruited this year in Tennessee and Georgia, cautioned that the success of this year's recruiting could not be determined until applications start coming in. "You can make critical contact now," he said, "but it's the follow up that really counts...
...take the only logical step we could take where nobody would be offended." The two men then turned to ward each other with a look of simultaneous discovery and fondness -and kissed, smack on the lips. The ABC Department of Broadcast Standards and Practices (the censors) deleted the actual contact of the lips, but the audience knew exactly what was going to happen after the rest of the scene ran intact. Half a dozen other racial jokes were included in the one-hour show, including jabs at the N.A.A.C.P., the K.K.K. and black militant students...
...technique of the takeover ranges all the way from polite negotiation to sneak attack. If the takeover is a friendly seduction, it usually follows a rather elaborate ritual. The first contact is often arranged by investment bankers, who stand to collect fees of up to $1,000,000 for arranging the merger. The potential partners usually meet at a country club or on some other neutral ground. They size each other up stiffly and uneasily; drinks are practically never served. If extreme secrecy is necessary, the top executives travel to out-of-town hotels where they figure nobody will recognize...
...close-ups of their faces (usually minus the tops of their heads) as they clinically pick apart and piece together the puzzle of Vietnam. Paul Mus, Professor of Buddhism at Yale, lounges in his living room chair beside a hi-fi speaker and Oriental trinkets and dramatically recreates his contact with Ho. Meanwhile, back where everything is what it is, Ho exhorts a loving crowd to keep the faith...