Word: couth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EUROPE: Wish you had gained a little couth by wandering around the Continent all summer? See Page...
...critcize Feuer's use of adolescent psychology as too crude. More goes into the making of a student activist than the two drives of altruism and generational hatred. But his sophisticated treatment of the generation as a historical unit compensates for this lack of couth at the individual level. The concepts of deauthorization and gerontocracy explain convincingly why generational revolt occurs at one period and not another. A more thorough discussion of student populism, however, might have included the "neighborhood effect" at Columbia and Harvard. It might also have explained how the politics of university administrations aggravate generational hatreds...
Giving It Away. The boss-a roly-poly man with thinning hair and a pencil-thin mustache-seems to enjoy appearing less than couth. Stone's frequent repetition of stock lines and his mispronunciations can be misleading. He is serious, bright and extremely shrewd. Though he delegates day-to-day authority to five top aides, he makes all the major policy decisions. His three grown children are all directors of Combined. Stone goes into the office only one day a week, on other days he works at home or travels-visiting the company's field men and preaching...
...with it"; hep became "hip" (in noun form, "hipster") during the bebop and beatnik era of the 1950s, then fell into disuse, to be revived with the onslaught of psychedelia. *A 14th century English troubadourian vision, the Land of Cockaigne was inhabited by precooked "larks well-trained and very couth who cometh down to man his mouth." The larks were eaten by hooded monks, who prayed through psychedelic church windows that "turn themselves to crystal bright." A new U.S. postage stamp of Thoreau, designed by Painter Leonard Baskin, was under fire last week on the ground that it makes bearded...
Communism has itself made wrenching readjustments. One of the more striking has been the post-Stalin push for respectability. True, the spectacle of Khrushchev banging a shoe at the U.N. did little to convince the world that Communism had suddenly become couth. Even then, however, Soviet diplomacy had come a long way from the era in which Soviet agents pushed Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk from a window of Prague's Czernin Palace...