Word: gyms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in theory the set is out of place. A jungle gym may remind one of the jungle, but it is misguided to try to cage the scenes of a highly dialectic play into once central playing area...
What goes by the name of sex education-or the popular euphemism "family living"-covers a wide range. For boys, it may simply be a session in the gym conducted by the coach and consisting of little more than health hints or superficial biology. For girls, it may be what one educator impatiently calls the "rainy-day phys-ed-movie bit"-frequently Walt Disney's well-worn Story of Menstruation. Only fairly general physiology is taught even in more ambitious programs-known to professionals as "plumbing courses." By modern standards, such courses are hardly considered sex education...
...being the life of all of them." Johnny's workdays usually start around 8:30 or 9 a.m. in his $173,000, nine-room duplex at Manhattan's United Nations Plaza. He reads newspapers and magazines, and works out for a while in his den gym. By 2 p.m., his chauffeur, one of the Carson staff of five (none of whom live in), ferries Johnny to his Radio City office in a 1967 Fleetwood Brougham...
...what Curator Tuchman, 30, calls "a heroic quality." Besides, it gets the benefits of the California sunshine, which Tuchman, who is a recent migrant from New York, describes rhapsodically as "more diffuse, more intense, with a pervasive glare, a kind of luminescence." Sol Lewitt's white jungle gym, for instance, gains a thousand chunky highlights from the sun. The California show also clearly demonstrates that the new cool geometry, which is often combined with bright color or gleaming industrial surfaces, is a truly nationwide movement. And the West Coast is at least as skillful as the East Coast...
...championship silver cup, which has sat in the Radeliffe Gym three of the last five years, went to Brandeis. The cup was donated by Radeliffe in the days it dominated the strip and other women's colleges shivered at the sound of 'Cliffe steel...