Word: freer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wellesley girl said, "I've never met a Cliffie." The rest of the 140 set about to describe the differences between the two schools and came up with a neat schematization of the role of woman in society. Radcliffe: "More aware of the outside world, freer spirits, more intense intellectual curiosity, introverted, egotistical, less feminine, less wholesome, not as refined, more independent, more bohemian and liberal, more spontaneous, less social, longer hair, more unorthodox." Wellesley: "More sickeningly wholesome, more socially conscious, more conscious of being women, different life-goals, less intellectual, more normal, less independent...
...generational gap. Athens and Rome both fondly cosseted and firmly curbed their children. Youth did not achieve a degree of social and political freedom until the 12th century. A rebellious band of University of Paris students decamped to Oxford and established a new and freer university; soon their idea spread throughout Europe, along with an entire youth subculture of drinking, wenching, dueling and an arcane language, a bastardized Latin eminently suited for drinking songs. In Italy, students formed guilds and hired professors (granted only one holiday a year), dictated the curriculum, and at Bologna even insisted that their teachers speak...
...Direction. After two days of discussions, the foreign ministers of the 15 NATO powers agreed unanimously to a communique that only months ago would have been unthinkable. There was not one word about military strength. Instead, its members called for the removal of "barriers to freer and more friendly reciprocal exchanges between countries of different social and economic systems." Further, members pledged to "continue their efforts to secure better relations with the So viet Union and the states of Eastern Europe in political, economic, social, scientific and cultural fields...
...Ethiopia. Royal trappings run the same range-from the furled umbrella that Denmark's King Frederik carries to go shopping, to the nine-tiered umbrella throne of King Bhumibol of Thailand. The champagne-and-chorus-girl monarch is gone or going; uncrowned dictators or oil millionaires are much freer to be glamorous wastrels these days than are kings...
...that a vote for a government candidate was not always a vote for the government. Some ARENA candidates openly proclaimed-their opposition to Castello Branco. In Sao Paulo, one ARENA campaigner pleaded for votes so that "I can oppose the government's policies from within." The opposition, far freer with its criticism, loudly blasted the diminutive ex-general for his "dictatorship...