Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle was there, of course, along with Mao and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The 1967 football season, hanging on "like a summer cold," qualified. So did Jacqueline Kennedy magazine covers and the movie Casino Royale, "the utter boring vacuity of the put-on carried to excess." Among gross literary excesses there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest dirty book ever written."* Finally, there were all the "Ins" (the bein, the kissin, the wedin, the dance-in, the shop-in, the drinkin, the love...
...Robert E. Gross, William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery and chief of the surgical cardio-vascular unit at Children's Hospital, also questioned how complete the information on dog transplants...
...Goes the Diesel. The balance of payments deficit amounts to a trifling one-half of 1% of the nation's $800 billion gross national product. But a continuation of such deficits could erode confidence in the dollar to the point where the potent U.S. economic diesel might just go pop. Congressmen generally agreed that something had to be done-quickly. There was grumbling on Capitol Hill, to be sure. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy said that the moves were "too defensive-like punting on first down." A number of Congressmen objected to the idea of curbs...
...economy was also a worry, even though the gross national product neared the $800 billion mark and the nation's uninterrupted expansion percolated into its 84th month, three months longer than the old record. There were inflationary signs, a big balance-of-payments deficit, pressure on the dollar after Britain's devaluation of the pound. Economists and politicians began talking about "profitless prosperity." When Johnson asked belatedly for a 10% surcharge on income taxes to damp down the supercharged economy, Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, insisted on an equivalent cut in federal spending...
...most outspoken critics of the S.A.T.s is Social Critic Martin L. Gross, a lecturer at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, who began his crusade against testing in 1962 with a book called The Brain Watchers. He calls S.A.T.s "the nail in the coffin of American intellectualism," since their emphasis on "certainty and right answers" makes test-taking ability "the criterion for college performance, and measures it badly." Gross and other critics deplore the pressure on students to score well on the tests. Many schools prep their students on the kind of vocabulary and mathematical skills tested...