Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuchman, noted historian and author of The Guns of August, implied that the U.S. had risked a Munich-like sellout by failing to come to Israel's aid more energetically. "If they [the Israelis] had not fought, the world would have sacrificed Israel -- with unction, with pious formula ... but without question," she declared...
...other hand, it must be admitted that this formula does sum up the principles-often the only principles-that many young people in fact try to follow. Parents who feel that these principles are inadequate cannot and should not look to the schools for decisive help. They will have to redefine or reassert their own morality in the home and in society at large. And that will take a great deal more than sex education, or education of any kind...
...Education Act, under which Washington directly assists local school districts with the emphasis on specific programs in impoverished areas, Albert Quie (pronounced Kwee) of Minnesota developed a new approach that would give state governments a dominant role in distributing federal funds. The Quie substitute would also have changed the formula under which federal aid is apportioned among the states...
...magazines and Playboy. So teen publishers tune their message to girls between ten and 18. The leader of the pack is still Seventeen (circ. 1,300,000), but Seventeen is now 23 years old and tends to look ahead to marriage and other grown-up matters. The newer formula includes fashion, fiction, personal and beauty advice and fan articles on teen heroes-mostly recording stars. The blend varies, but all the mags strive to respond to their readers' letters...
This sort of novel (John Rechy's City of Night, Alfred Chester's The Exquisite Corpse) runs to a pat boy-meets-boy formula and also takes to a traditional thematic cover. The jacket proclaims a search for love and the breakthrough from loneliness. But inside the jacket the reader usually finds an untucked hair shirt of violence and degradation. The gay life never leads down a simple primrose path; most relationships of this sort are entangled in the bramble of sadomasochism, and inevitably, the virgin is despoiled, the innocent becomes jaded, and another sensitive, out-of-step...