Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Legman analyzes jokes in the light of their fear quotient. The fear buried in jokes about adultery, he contends, is that of homosexuality. There is an understood linkage between the cuckolded husband and his wife's traducer in the familiar story about the wife who admits to adultery while her husband was out of town. Husband: "Who was it, Finkelstein?" Wife: "No." "Cohen?" "No." "Shapiro?" "No." "What's the matter-none of my friends are good enough for you?" Concludes Legman: "In the relationship with the other man that is crucial to adultery, it is the triumph over...
...steering committee of the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, contemptuously denounces "the myth that better communication would solve everything," opts instead for the tactics of confrontation. There is "no campus where significant political advance or educational reform or movement work has taken place that is not also familiar with confrontation," he argues. "You've got to let yourself get angry-and maybe violent as well-before you can find out who you are." To Rossman, who signs his letter "Love, but not peace," no effort at communication can substitute for a good, rousing conflict...
Cochran is familiar with dorm problems, since he has spent most of his waking hours there for the past three years. There is no stipulation in Radcliffe's Redbook about sexual or residential requirements for dorm officers...
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S farewell State of the Union address was very much the kind of performance that we've come to expect from him. The address was full of the old familiar LBJisms--his assurances that peace is closer than ever, his juggled financial statistics, his flagwaving reference to our troops in Asia, his understandable concern over his own place in history...
...These familiar pleas are backed with solid statistical indications that Harvard and Radcliffe students really want the change. Ninety per cent of the undergraduates polled by the HPC favored the idea of optional coed living accommodations and almost half the Harvard students as well as 60 per cent of the Cliffies said they were willing to pack their bags and move next term. The crowds that gather for lunch every day at Lehman Hall and the huge number of Harvard students who make the trek to Hilles each night confirm just how eager students here are for informal coeducational contacts...