Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson's characters share a universal preoccupation: sex. As an element of shock in art, a waning force in middle age, a matter of concern to parents, a misty memory of the aged, sex links these four consistently droll, frequently hilarious and occasionally touching playlets...
...STUDENT political movement of the 1960's is, in the totality of its means and ends, unique in American history. No single element of its approach is entirely new but the combination of these elements is new. To speak of a "movement" at all is to over-state the situation, for the very nature of the activity makes it dispersed and diverse. There are changing localities of action, vehicles for expression, tactics to pursue; and no developed ideology. It is a movement that can be seen and has been seen by many different people in many different ways...
There are two elements inter-twined in this new political activism. The first is composed of the issue-by-issue protestors; the second by adheresent to one or another of the organized groups on the Left. It is the first element which is unique and has set the decade of the 1960's aside as different from the past...
...also has an inhibiting effect on some unmarried girls. They feel that to take them regularly, calculatingly, in anticipation of a possible amorous encounter, would deprive them of a treasured "feeling of innocence" when the great moment arrived. For some of them, as for their boy friends, an essential element in a premarital fling is risk...
Suggestive correlations with the use of psychiatric help were also observed in two other questions: "Have you ever felt out of place at Harvard?" and "What kind of a time are you having at Harvard?" Both questions have an element of the satisfaction-dissatisfaction continuum in them. For the 1964 sample only, students who admitted they had felt out of place, or who said they were not having a very good time at Harvard were overrepresented in the psychiatric group. Although the association could not be replicated, the data do tend to strengthen our findings about the dissatisfaction variable...