Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody knows what portion of parents are illiterate, for even the settlement house has difficulty reaching this group. The best many of the adults can do is pay lip service to middle class values, tell children not to grow up like their parents, and continue to live the roles of failed...
...houses grow smaller and families larger, man's home is fast becoming his kiddies' castle. Already teen-agers have overrun the living room, kitchen and den, driving their parents into the last bastion of apartness-the fortress bedroom...
...garden bathroom, which has one glass wall. For some degree of privacy, the garden or patio outside is surrounded by a wall or hedge, is usually accessible only through the bathroom. Thus, while shaving or showering, the occupant can sunbathe, sing with the birds and watch the grass grow. Says one dismayed Los Angeles matron: "Using a bathroom like that is like being caught out in the middle of a prairie...
Some analysts have speculated that the unsatisfactory economic argument may cover up the more basic political suspicion that a merger of 'Outer Seven' with 'Inner Six' would grow into a 'third force' which would ultimately decrease the relative political power of the United States. If this analysis is correct, American uneasiness about the European Movement is neither intelligent nor noble, for it is based, on the one hand, on the view that the quantity of political power is eternally fixed and on the other, on the uncharitable assumption that Europe will desert the Western Alliance...
...more seriously examined for the qualities that allow them to endure beyond their showings in the 'forties, and sporadic reincarnation on the Late Late Show; for I contend that they "touch immortality" in many ways that ought to be disconcerting to that portion of their audiences that grow increasingly precocious viewing the jucier parts of Virgin Spring or La Dolce Vita. Disconcerting in that they advocate immorality of the sort that even right-thinking undergrads (who allow it in thumbed copies of The Naked Lunch, and sublimate it in Down At The Dinghy) ought to resent: they advocate a soft...