Word: freer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief criticism has come from some broadcasters and distillery executives, who feel that freer advertising would provoke the Prohibitionists. The broadcasters, however, freely advertise beer and wine, which, when used immoderately, can be just as overpowering as whisky. Last week NAB President LeRoy Collins strongly urged WQXR to reconsider, said that its position could "break down the gates." But Brooklyn Congressman Emanuel Celler congratulated the station for "wiping away the hypocrisy...
...Freudian days, Author Valentine points out, fathers were often considerably freer and franker with their advice than they are today. He includes Benjamin Franklin's famed advice in 1745, listing the advantages of an elderly mistress: "The pleasure of corporal enjoyment with an old woman is at least equal and frequently superior, every knack being by practice capable of improvement." The Earl of Pembroke, anxious to see his son restore the family fortunes by settling into a good marriage instead of a military career, writes with Georgian bluntness: "I wish you would draw, not your sword, but your precious...
Much has already been done, but Blaine would like to see the Service move toward "educational psychiatry." This means that college psychiatry would ally itself closely with the Faculty and Administration in an attempt to produce an education freer of emotional crises. Even now, Dr. Blaine notes, the staff influences the College machinery, often pointing out extenuating circumstances in student firings...
...hope animated his most active and effective role in the politics of this hemisphere. Knowing that a free society which cannot help the many who are poor, cannot save the few who are rich, he created the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps. He led the way to freer international trade for the United States and a greater economic unity for Europe. And in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, he concluded an historic treaty that remits the slow, agonizing enervation of mankind by the atom, that postpones a little longer...
...dizzying $67 billion; Defense Secretary McNamara sweated off $14 billion and the Administration wound up asking for $49 billion ($4 billion for such items as military assistance, military construction and civil defense is covered in separate bills); and the House whacked $2 billion off that. Only in the freer-spending Senate did the shrinkage stop, and then only by a barely perceptible amount. Final Senate-approved total of the bill: $47.3 billion...