Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...natural and tend to collapse under stress. Seeking a really nonviolent community, anthropologists point with hope to the peace-loving pygmies of the Ituri rain forest in the Congo. Unlike other men, those "primitives" have no male-warrior hangup; they retreat from power-seeking neighbors-and hugely enjoy the sensual pleasures of eating, drinking, sex and laughter...
...what it omits. The new document has dropped entirely the sections from the 1949 law that guaranteed freedom of artistic expression, academic pursuits and scientific inquiry. The 1949 constitution spelled out in detail the rights of both Roman Catholic and Protestant churches to give religious instruction in schools, enjoy state protection of religious ceremonies and receive financial support through government-collected taxes. But the new constitution makes no mention whatsoever of the rights of churches. Many East German Protestants fear that Ulbricht will use this ambiguity as a lever to force them to break away entirely from their West German...
...major Hollywood production centers are purring with some 150 feature films scheduled for 1968. Budgets are bigger than ever, now that the vast conglomerate industries have moved in and allowed the studios to enjoy gelt by association. To maintain a liaison be tween the new financiers and the new film makers, studios are turning to the new executives. Cool, crisp as a bank note, three such men, none of them yet 40, are already the masters of production at some of the nation's biggest and best-known studios...
...periodical is what we objected to, not the kids. We have no objection to them so long as they conform to the norms of the community. In this case, you had a group of children--I call them children--who were handing the public something disgusting and seeming to enjoy it...the minority inflicting obscenity on the majority...
...ping-pong with Miller and visited Disneyland, where he made three trips on the Mark Twain paddlewheeler and took the "Submarine Voyage." It may be that these adventures will find their way into Durrell's next novel: as a man and a writer, he has learned how to enjoy civilization and its discontents. Perhaps this is what Durrell suggested when he had his Felix Charlock declare: "We should tackle reality in a slightly joky way, otherwise we miss its point...