Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S cover story, "The Command Generation" [July 29], is a delight. I am tired of hearing that the teen-ager is the biggest spender in the country, that it is on his shoulders that the world rests, etc. Where does the teen-ager get his money, who feeds him, educates him, employs him, houses him, gives him cars? The middleaged, of course...
...feed themselves in a hostile land, made later colonists a nation of rifle men capable of winning their freedom in the American Revolution. The West was tamed with guns, and frontier justice became synonymous with them. From the nation's earliest days, the gun has been the delight of collectors and sportsmen. Today, the U.S. has the world's largest civilian cache: some 100 million handguns, rifles and shotguns in private hands. Every year, more than 1,000,000 "dangerous weapons" are sold by mail order in the U.S., and another million or so imported...
College humor magazines have taken a special delight in kidding TIME. The Harvard Lampoon's effort last year attracted a paperback publisher, who had 150,000 copies printed. Its lead story began, "Dawn came up over the China Sea in the usual fashion last Thursday" and moved on to the punch line: "Viet Nam had disappeared...
...Delight & Risk. No man in the land gets a higher paycheck than the middle-ager. The average age for incomes of $10,000 to $15,000 is 47, for incomes of $15,000 and up, 51. This makes delayed pleasures possible. A man may have been sports-car minded for years, but when he climbs behind the wheel of a Mustang, his average age is 48. With no small children underfoot, husbands and wives discover the pleasures of each other's company, share convention trips, take that second honeymoon to Europe...
Change is a delight in the middle years. Columnist Art Buchwald, 40, pulled up stakes in Paris as the celebrity's celebrity, relocated himself in Washington, D.C., and mined it for satire. Astronaut John Glenn, 45, is a vice president of Royal Crown Cola. Sometimes the change is an allout risk. Maxwell Wihnyk, 54, was running a mildly profitable newspaper in Beaumont, Calif., five years ago, but there was no joy in it. With a wife and three dependent children, he decided to go to law school. Says he: "You can scare the hell out of yourself living...