Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every single, nor perhaps even a majority, participates fully in the subculture. To enjoy it to a considerable degree, a single must be relatively young, relatively well-to-do, and live in a big city. Participation begins with graduation from college, which represents both in symbol and reality an end of dependence on family. The new graduate takes off for the big city, looking for a job and an apartment of his or her own. And he begins determinedly to swing. In the ultimate, this means buying the highest of hi-fis, the deepest of modern sofas, the heppest...
...puts the unmarried's problem in a frame of reference that is more romantic and more telling: "The lack a single person feels most acutely is when he leaves his group to go off somewhere on a trip, one of those trips that his single status lets him enjoy. It can occur in front of a castle, on the quiet deck of a boat going up the Rhine, or on any overlook anywhere, looking at a sunset. Faced with such a sight, the natural tendency is to want to turn to someone to say, 'Isn't that...
...principle" on the pace and percentages of the first tariff cuts. They even went along with Uruguay's plea that "an acute economic and financial crisis" entitles it to be classed among the "less developed" countries for the next five years, despite the fact that its people normally enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the LAFTA region. But such happy harmony was soon shattered when the three other "less developed" nations-Paraguay, Bolivia and Ecuador-demanded that their goods be allowed to move into the more industrialized countries duty-free, even before the first tariff cuts...
...cuisine is Swedish, the chef is Bergman, and the vegetables are raised by Schmidt. Most of all, she says, they enjoy "being alone with each other...
...Shaw and his sibling Run Me grind out 40 such Chinese films a year, have become so successful that they now own the biggest show-business empire in Asia. Their movies may be tragedies, but with 132 movie houses and seven amusement parks, the Shaws continue to enjoy the last laugh...