Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accustomed to magazines that only entertain (Life) or sloganeer (Time), Americans have a difficult time classifying the "N.R." Neither "liberal" nor "radical" will do. The appropriate adjective is "civilized," a word alien to this country, used on this side of the Atlantic only as a term of condescension or ridicule. The New Republic is civilized in the French sense of the term: "rendu correct ou elegant." And, because it is civilized, it can civilize those who read it, by stimulating interest in new problems and by fostering perspective in regard to old ones...
Marietta would be an addition to most any party, certainly not excluding those that she throws herself. She uses her opulent New York town house and her impeccable British butler, Collins, to entertain Democratic intellectuals and rank-and-file alike...
...could only be applauded by Europe's businessmen, though they are more interested in economics than ecumenism. They are totting up the results of a season that, while sunny for some of them, shows the need for some new approaches by others. In the 20 European nations that entertain two-thirds of the world's 80 million foreign vacationers, tourism generally increased this year, but growth rates slowed and spending declined in some of the brightest showplaces...
...Studies show that air conditioners raise plant efficiency by as much as 20%, and they are such crowd-drawers for stores, hotels and restaurants that some small eateries have more money invested in their cooling system than in all the rest of the place. Even Hong Kong prostitutes now entertain in air-conditioned "entertainment hostels," where climatized clients are said to tarry longer and tip higher...
Although the Dean's Office announced last Fall that it was giving "serious thought" to reducing the number of hours during which men could entertain women in dormitory rooms, no changes have been instituted. After studying infractions of the rules, the Deans apparently decided that careful enforcement, rather than a cutback in parietals, was the way to avoid any possible scandals...