Word: glamorization
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...symbols. There were no longer any institutionalized times or places for girls to be girls or boys to be boys. Many men hightailed back into final clubs or athletics, but Radcliffe surfaced ubiquitous, from House crew to Lampoon. And Harvard started to dress differently--women foreswore the affects, the glamor girl niceties for blue jeans and shags like...
...Understandably the aura of glamor which the Peace Corps had during the Kennedy Administration has died, since many Americans--and students in particular--are refocusing their attention to domestic problems," Hess said. "But the needs of the world are massive and continue to expand...
...submerged beneath the glamor of these were the street dwellers proper--working class kids, often runaways who literally had nowhere to go and nothing to lose. Cambridge often became a trap for these younger and poorer blacks and whites. Lured to Cambridge by the aura of freedom of the middle class dropouts, they would leave from home, reform school, or mental hospitals stealing cars or a little money trying to get here. Once here they would realize that they were trapped--that the city, rough and dirty, offered little more than anonymity from the police...
...336th annual fall sports quiz, the Crimson sports cube takes you on a nostalgic journey through the gates, portals, sections, rows and seats of college football memorabilia. After having dealt with the early gridiron heroes and glamor boys in former quizzes, this autumn the sports cube staff focuses on the '50's and '60's, when fans witnessed the rise and fall and then rebirth of a strategy called platoon football...
What can you say about a book like Dealing? Only that it should have died before being born. Like certain other recent books, it has its eye on the cash appeal of Ivy League glamor and a "where it's happening" subject. But it is more wearisome and dangerous than most. For Dealing has all the subtlety and compassion of a spray-painted slogan, without a concomitant clarity of purpose...