Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to the university's primary obligation to protect free expression there are also ethical responsibilities assumed by each member of the university community, along with the right to enjoy free expression. Though these are much more difficult to state clearly, they are of great importance. If freedom of expression is to serve its purpose, and thus the purpose of the university, it should seek to enhance understanding. Shock, hurt, and anger are not consequences to be weighed lightly. No member of the community with a decent respect for others should use, or encourage others to use, slurs and epithets...
...takes some special qualities: the ability to laugh at oneself, the balance that allows one to enjoy great victories without being arrogant and suffer great defeats without crumbling. The job of society, rather than fitting aspirants into Superman's suit, is to pay close attention to the clothes they actually wear Rhetoric is no substitute for record, speechwriters for substance, charisma for character...
Campy and Chic. What the guys obviously did not realize is that loud socks are now so stylish that even fashion pundits like Rosemary Kent at Harper's Bazaar enjoy exposing kaleidoscopic legs at dinner parties and at the theater. Says Kent: "The socks are campy and chic, and are as important to have as a Gucci belt or a Cartier watch." Or, at the very least, a mink toothbrush...
...middle-class Americans might logically be retrenching-or even digging trenches. In fact, the economic malaise seems to have generated an extraordinary happy-woe-lucky mood. As a laid-off Manhattan construction superintendent puts it: "I could have played out my savings and played safe, but I wanted to enjoy myself. This is the last great splurge." It could be called the Doom Boom...
Much of what the authors recommend is sound, though hardly new: partners should talk and touch more, stop working so hard at sex if they want to enjoy it, and let sexual awareness flow through their daily lives instead of confining it to half an hour in bed. Though likable and warm, Masters and Johnson are not much given to humor. But when one woman vaguely says that she wants to have children so she can watch something develop and grow, Johnson adroitly advises: "Get a plant...