Word: cribs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Women's editors keep in step with medicine. They routinely discuss pregnancy, the pill, abortion, menopause. Mrs. Brazier not only reported the phenomenon of infant crib deaths in Seattle; she ran photos of babies who had died, including the children of socially prominent families. Observing that the use of oral contraceptives in some cases enlarged women's breasts, the Atlanta Journal's Edith Hills Coogler interviewed the local Lovable brassiere manufacturer, who lovably agreed that he had to do some tinkering with his production line...
...against Goliath; using roughly 82,000 cliched words per stone, the author indulges in literary overkill, with her sling relentlessly aimed at the bestseller lists. Her hero is a young, hypersensitive Southern Negro named David, a genius, jazz virtuoso and cripple, who makes his way from a dresser-drawer crib in New Orleans to Harvard and Oxford, and back to the civil rights battlegrounds of the South. Her white characters, including a college cutup named Sudsy Sutherland and a heavy called OP Clete, seem to derive more from The Hardy Boys than from life; her Negro dialect is echt Amos...
...this unlikely combination, Cronkite has constructed an on-screen personality that makes him the single most convincing and authoritative figure in TV news-no mean rank in a medium where competition is uncompromising, where the three nationwide networks scrutinize one another's shows and crib from one another's operations in a desperate drive for the top of the ratings. As a better-informed public has demanded more and more information about current events, TV news programs have changed from loss leaders and have begun to start paying their way. And as the networks have made the most...
...free-flowing" permissiveness. The "psychosomatic" cold and eating to "compensate" have become part of folklore. Pop-psych even appears on the sports page, as when a feature writer for New York's new World Journal Tribune gets a psychiatrist to describe baseball as a ritual performed in a crib (the diamond) and dominated by an elevated father figure (the pitcher on his mound...
Gerber, with babies still its only business, has begun thinking beyond infant appetites to consider the total baby. The company is marketing pants, bibs, socks, shirts, crib sheets and toddler clothes, is testing paper washcloths, diapers and lotion-treated tissues, and five months ago set up a department to explore other diversification...