Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another whose name has been cropping up lately, though some Republicans consider him to be hopelessly damaged goods, is Richard Nixon. "I'm not going to be a candidate in 1964," insisted Nixon in Manhattan last week. In 1968, when he will be only 55, he might entertain more ambitious ideas. Others whose names have been tossed out to see how they would bounce: General Lucius Clay, ex-Minnesota Representative Walter Judd, Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield. None bounced...
Spoon River. There are three fixed ideas that Americans like to entertain about small towns: 1) they are bucolically idyllic, 2) they stunt, thwart and twist people's lives, 3) they harbor an incredible amount of sexual hanky-panky behind their primly drawn curtains. If any one book by any one man may be said to have fostered these notions, it is Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, which first appeared in 1915. Masters, who died in 1950 at the age of 81, was a Chicago lawyer-turned-poet who had grown up in Petersburg and Lewistown...
...H.C.U.A. member, Tom Timberg '64, said he favors "abolition of parietal rules." That is, he said he prefers no restrictions on the hours students can entertain girls in their rooms...
...Dunster move is the first organized student response to statements made last week by Dean Watson indicating that the Dean's Office is thinking seriously of reducing the number of hours during which men may entertain women in dormitory rooms...
...appropriate for a Harvard student to entertain a girl in his own room," Watson said. According to the Dean, most Masters think Saturday night dating in students suites is restricted to living rooms...