Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leisure time? "The 30-hour work week will not come. People will enter the labor market later and later as education grows. And they may retire earlier, but they will continue to take their benefits in the form of money rather than a shorter week...
Like camp, Art Deco is an acquired taste-and not everyone wants to acquire it. Part fad, part cultivated eccentricity, it will survive in a scattering of artifacts. But not even its greatest admirers would commend it as a model of form for the future...
...eight years ago by Dr. C. Henry Kempe, chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, during a pioneer investigation of child beating and its causes. Kempe and other investigators have since gained a better understanding of battering parents, and have developed a form of therapy that is now proving successful in curbing their excesses...
Near Monopoly. One possible factor: Annenberg may have feared trouble with the Federal Communications Commission. His Triangle Publications company owns several television and radio stations, as well as TV Guide, Seventeen magazine, the Morning Telegraph and the Daily Racing Form. Renewal of Triangle's license to operate WFIL-TV in Philadelphia has been opposed by a former Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, Milton Shapp. He claimed last July that Triangle exercised "a near news monopoly in the Philadelphia area," and that under Annenberg's direction, news had been "censored, omitted, twisted, distorted and used for personal vengeance." Triangle...
...convention do the work of invention. They are rewriting the 19th century novel without meaning to. In The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles rewrites the 19th century novel and means every word of it. But his is a resourceful and penetrating talent at work on that archaic form. The result is more truly inventive and contemporary than a whole shelf of campus comings-of-age or suburban wife-swapping sagas...