Word: diversionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RECREATION Gnus Nix ZaxTut In the dusk of many summer evenings, for the quiet time when television cloys and the children scuttle in chase of the Good Humor man, an ever-growing slice of the U.S. public has found a new diversion. Its name: Scrabble. Its components: a...
Southern customs are still largely based on the assumption that the Negro is an inferior being. But that assumption lacks the pseudo-scientific backing it still had a generation ago. For decades, the South's preoccupation with the Negro was a kind of cushion against reality, a diversion from the...
Lowell House's annual presentation of an opera has always been a gracious tradition. On occasion it has been musically significant. This year it has not. The Two Misers may have been quite adequate as a diversion in the court of Louis XV; however, as the only serious operatic presentation...
This seasonal diversion contravenes the rule against playing ball in the courtyard. Human nature ensures that some people will indulge in it anyway.
Appetite for Attack. To the hard-bitten professionals of the First Marine Division, night patrols such as Sergeant Main led last week were refreshing enough as diversion and exercise. "We can keep those goonies guessing instead of having to guess all the time ourselves." said one red-faced, wearily scornful...