Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swedish prison or a stud farm but not at a university. The heart of the matter was decided long ago when the masters initiated parietals and when Mrs. Bunting allowed Radcliffe girls to sign out overnight. That fact signified that the university, although concerned, did not see fit to interfere in the private affairs of its students. The whole problem of parietals is a distasteful and vulgar tug-of-war which challenges the university in an area where the greatest possible concession has already been made. The university is wrong to limit parietals for reasons made explicit above. The student...
...Territorial Imperative to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Just as thoroughly, Westin has compiled a catalogue of electronic bugging devices, wiretaps and mechanical spies that will surprise even those who think they are up on the subject. Items currently available: TV cameras small enough to fit in a vest pocket with an "eye" the width of a cigarette; sniper-scopes that can spot a man at 700 yards in the dark; cameras and recorders that turn on when anyone enters a room or starts talking; an ultrasonic wave that can snoop on a conversation by picking...
...Committee last week to support the Administration's call for a 10% surtax on personal and corporate incomes. Well over 300 academic economists mobilized by Walter W. Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, added their written endorsement. Then came businessmen declaring themselves fit to be tithed and a covey of Administration officials pleading for higher taxes...
...Real Husk. The Communists' confusion over Marx began when the Lenins and Mao Tse-tungs started stretching his maxims to fit largely agrarian societies. Then, too, Marx became archaic when it became evident that 1) England, Germany and the other advanced industrial nations had avoided revolution; 2) capitalism, partly in response to Marx's ideas, had showed itself vital enough to change with the times into something that Marx would hardly have recognized; and 3) workers in the West were increasingly sharing in the fruits of capitalist prosperity. Not until recently did Europe's Communists realize that...
Fragrance at Sea. Snaith calls industrial designers "the 20th century's Renaissance men," and his own interests certainly fit that label. He is author, decorator, designer, consumer analyst, critic, raconteur, painter, gourmet cook and popular after-dinner speaker. His canvases have won respectful reviews in four Manhattan exhibits. His first book, a diatribe about trends in art and architecture called The Irresponsible Arts, drew mostly critical barbs, but Across the Western Ocean fared better. It consists mostly of the log of two trips in his 47-ft. yawl, Figaro III. In the book, Skipper Snaith, one of the world...