Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society to make men smooth and round, rather than angular -- has evolved Heckscher's program for neighborhood parks. "Parks have always been the gathering placed for the people, the point where the values of the community are celebrated, where the business of the community is done, where everything from courtship to conspiracy has its birth...
...utter courtship ended, tokens...
Bobby's courtship of youth is both transparent and distasteful, as far as Shannon is concerned. "Although the young are very important, their political opinions are the least important thing about them." Yet Bobby's capacity "for exaggerating and romanticizing youth's role" is so great that sometimes "it is hard to say whether Kennedy is seeking the presidency or the leadership of a new Children's Crusade...
Peggy also confided in one of her high school teachers, who recalls: "It was a carefully thought-out decision." Mrs. Rusk discussed the courtship with the teacher and, according to the confidante, "never asked me to try to discourage Peggy and never showed any sign of disapproval." While Rusk was understandably troubled about the problems of a mixed marriage, he seemed even more concerned about Peggy's youth. The United Church of Christ minister who performed the ceremony, University Chaplain B. Davie Napier, detected no family hostility to the match. He discussed the problems of intermarriage with Peggy...
...friends. The foursome soon shrank to a twosome. They spent the Labor Day holiday together outside Rehoboth Beach in Delaware on a stretch of sand known popularly as "Whisky Beach" or "the Passion Pit," which the Chamber of Commerce now wants renamed more decorously in honor of their courtship...