Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exam every month," said Clark Kerr to a group of reporters last week. "I've taken lots of them and passed. This time I didn't." Indeed not. By a vote of 14 to 8, Cali fornia's board of regents had just de cided to dismiss Kerr after eight years as head of the nation's largest university...
...Ernst married an American girl who had attended the Dayton Art Institute. When she happened on the oils stuffed in a trunk, her husband assured her: "They're nothing-just some junk I got gypped on." Unable to dismiss them from her mind, Mrs. Ernst spent seven years trying to identify them in art books and libraries. Finally, in 1945, she convinced her husband that they should take the paintings to New York. Art dealers there declared the badly cracked canvases to be worthless fakes or copies. But by searching in the New York Public Library, the Ernsts found...
There are also certain, more basic issues with which one must come to grips. Like, how should you feel about sex? Is it a good thing? Is it even worth talking about? Or does everyone know about it already? Well, I suppose it's all right to dismiss it summarily, since everyone knows that among the jeunesse doree this sort of thing goes on all the time, so why bother describing it. But certainly you're not going to admit that jet set "secrets and morals" don't go beyond occasional, normal, heterosexual, humdrum, friendly encounters? Be bored with something...
...Another heroine (as we learn from her "New Angles on Life notebook") is mildly inspired by a sermon, but finds her salvation in a brass bed with an old friend who happened to be in church that morning. It's good to dismiss it all like that, but don't admit the symbolism--unless it's at the artistic level, of course. For a while you actually seemed to take it seriously, and that should never be done. Unless you're writing about your own conversion which, if treated properly, is fashionable nowadays...
...going to get in Wrigley Field and 'put one over the plate for Jesus baby,' " says a Georgia coed. Even union members have little sense of militancy. Having little fear that they will ever lack material comforts for their own part, the young tend to dismiss as superficial and irrelevant their elders' success-oriented lives. "You waited," sniffs a young Californian. "We won't." Nonetheless, today's youth appears more deeply committed to the fundamental Western ethos-decency, tolerance, brotherhood-than