Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year of crises and threats of more to come, the nation and the world seem eager for a respite. Moreover, the U.S. has long had a tradition of forbearance toward a new President: a willingness to let him show what he can do, even if he does not enjoy wide and enthusiastic public support...
Ticket splitting this year seemed to become the national norm. Filling offices below the national ticket, voters in state after state indicated a keen sense of discrimination and a resistance to predictable patterns. In the House elections, incumbents seemed to enjoy the edge. In several Senate and gubernatorial contests, the voters reached for new personalities. In New York, Humphrey gained an easy victory, while the Republicans ended Democratic control of the state assembly...
...trade surplus, the U.S. will face a difficult dilemma. Many economists reason that the nation has moved into a new era, in which its industrial efficiency no longer provides a cushion against lower wage rates abroad. Yet if the U.S. substantially reduces the comparatively free access other countries enjoy to the world's largest market, it risks a prosperity-wrecking shrinkage in world trade. If the U.S. cooled its heated domestic economy enough to bring prices in line with those of foreign goods, the resulting unemployment would aggravate today's urban crisis and make U.S. companies less enticing to foreign...
...George Washington Hills. A Marlboro-type man is seen puffing happily in a duck blind. Cut. The sound track plays Smoke Gets in Your Eyes while a Winston kind of couple revels in a shipboard romance. Cut. A Salem-style twosome, high on tobacco and each other, enjoy an apres-ski spree. How can such a splice-up of burnt-out cliches sell cigarettes? That's the point. The voiceover during the 60-second spot has been saying right along: "Cigarette smoke contains some interesting elements: carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, benzopyrene, hydrogen cyanide. Cigarette smoke has been related to increased rates...
When he was drinking, O'Neill dreamed of living on a dark estate enclosed by a great fence with barred and guarded gates. Within, he would enjoy all the prerequisites of comfort and happiness, including, as Agnes Boulton reported it, unlimited power "over ideas; over things; over people." He came nearest to this role of father-mother deity in his writing, which he once referred to rather chillingly as "my vacation from living...