Word: containers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...persistent source of modern euphemisms is the feeling, inspired by the prestige of science, that certain words contain implicit subjective judgments, and thus ought to be replaced with more "objective" terms. To speak of "morals" sounds both superior and arbitrary, as though the speaker were indirectly questioning those of the listener. By substituting "values," the concept is miraculously turned into a condition, like humidity or mass, that can be safely measured from a distance. To call someone "poor," in the modern way of thinking, is to speak pejoratively of his condition, while the substitution of "disadvantaged" or "underprivileged," indicates that...
Upper level English courses contain many of these girls, as do courses in creative writing, foreign languages, and the other humanities. They rarely participate in extracurricular activities, with the exception of creative arts. When they do act, write, paint, or play instruments, it is usually extremely well. Probably they wrote poetry when they were young...
...again, hoping for a headline saying no survivors." J.F.K.'s correspondent was John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. Ambassador to India, and "the whole place," naturally enough, was the State Department in Washington. The diaries of the acerbic Harvard economist, to be published in the October issue of American Heritage, contain some other fascinating passages, notably an account of Jackie Kennedy's state visit to India ("The President had told me that the care and management of Mrs. Kennedy involved a good deal of attention, and he is quite right."). But the best parts involve his never-ending feud with...
...Decade Ahead. Still, population is relentlessly exploding in what the report terms "unexploding economies." In the next decade, 18 Latin American cities will probably contain 1,000,000 or more inhabitants each, whether the nations are prepared for the flood of humanity or not. Bombay and Calcutta might swell to 20 million or even 30 million residents by the end of the century...
Dona Flor's friends can scarcely contain their vicarious relief. But Dona Flor is wretched. Her Vadinho was a tender, tireless, imaginative lover...