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Word: detours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIKE MOST literature that has a complaining tone, women's liberation magazines don't appeal strongly, at first, to anyone who can't join in the complaint. Especially when the complaint is. "We women are unhappy with our sexual and social role," most readers tend to make a detour around this literature, if they don't jeer and throw tomatoes...

Author: By Spencie Love, | Title: Women Liberation Lit | 12/16/1969 | See Source »

...Graham B. Blaine Jr. '40, chief of Psychiatric Services, said that, "For far too many, adolescent rebellion... instead of a detour before achieving maturity, too often becomes a one way street to misery and unhappiness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blaine Says Adolescent Rebellion Has Element of Self-Destruction | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...request as soon as he reached Hanoi, but Peking had not bothered to reply by the time he departed five days later. Kosygin flew to Calcutta and was en route to Dushanbe in Soviet Central Asia when the Chinese leaders finally approved the meeting. Though Kosygin's long detour was interpreted as a loss of face for the Russians, Moscow should ultimately profit from having demonstrated its willingness to forsake protocol in the interests of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Cool Confrontation | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...story still begins as generically as any Chandler. A detective is engaged to track a missing husband. The wife is alcoholic, inscrutable and intriguing. Armed with few clues and a feeling that he is embarked on a useless yet necessary quest, the detective proceeds to make a grand detour of the local underworld scene. What started out as a whodunit winds up as a "Who-am-I?" Separated from his home, and a victim of a sense of alienation to boot, the detective begins to identify with the missing husband and yearn for his own wife, to the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solution and Dissolution | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...points, and perhaps cannot say that we have completely identical views on all the events going on." Unfortunately for Ayub, Kosygin is not willing to risk alienating India, an ally against the Chinese that Russia wants to pamper with every attention. At week's end he planned a detour to New Delhi on his flight home, probably to discuss the Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Consolation Prizes | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

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