Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Omaha. At the outbreak of a riot, police relay a "Code 30" to newsmen; they, in turn, hold up riot bulletins for 30 minutes-usually enough time for lawmen to establish control. During the news gap, police provide at least as much information on the riot as newsmen could gather in so short a time. The Justice Department has also asked for less inflammatory language in riot coverage and greater care in substantiating the facts...
...perceptive will readily date them from the 1920s. They have that slightly posed air of gay gallantry and tender toughness that marked the era of "But Jesus we had fun." After four decades, its heroes and heroines look as comically self-conscious as silent-movie characters, trying to gather their rosebuds in vigorous deadpan. What comes through most clearly is the sentimentality lurking beneath. Hemingway, hard as nails on the outside but soft as a baby impala on the inside, was an archetypical son of the era. And Dorothy Parker, who died last week of a heart attack...
...failure was ominous. For, in addition to being the class' first collective venture, it also proved one of the last. With a few minor exceptions, the class of 1967 did not gather again in any joint activity until Commencement. The Harvard experience did not encourage any sort of class identity or consciousness. As freshmen moved out to the Houses, they drew friends and ideas from the classes above them; and they passed many of these to the classes that followed...
Cruising on Land. Thus equipped, the new breed of pioneers can gather around the old late show on TV, sleep beneath their toasty-warm electric blankets, and wake up to shave with plug-in razors while the coffee makers perk merrily away. If the old object of camping as a spartan way of getting back to nature has thereby been lost, it is beside the point...
...Great Container. Primitive rituals, continues Mumford, were "basic to the whole development of human culture"; they stabilized Paleolithic man through repetitive acts that produced predictable effects. Early man was first a collector and later a hunter; from animals he learned how to gather food before discovering how to kill for it. Kings created the prototype machines from people: they organized manpower to build monuments and wage...