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Word: highly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victorian farmhouse is a wreck. It is bare wood now, so you can hardly tell it was ever painted. The yard is all high weeds, covered with dog droppings, buzzing with flies. A radio plays through the broken screen door. I can't raise anybody so I go around back, where I find Bill McCorry and Bill McCorry Jr., the owners. The old man wears a cowboy hat and boots, the son has a flattop and cowboy boots, but a city shirt. I ask the son how he's making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: CANDIDE CAMERA: IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...thousand Americans a day become Californians. They come West with high expectations that the wealth, the welcoming land, the easy ambience, the astonishing diversity of opportunity will all provide something far different from the dull sublunary routine of most mortals. To many of them, indeed, the new setting does mean an end to the grim struggle for existence, the beginning of a life that frees emotional energies for the pursuit of self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: LABORATORY IN THE SUN: THE PAST AS FUTURE | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Egeberg proposed a radical solution, involving nothing less than a change in prevailing attitudes about marriage and children. The notion that everyone should marry and raise a family was important in an era when infant-mortality rates were high and life expectancy short. Now it is important, he warned, to remove the stigma that society attaches to remaining unmarried and to somehow change the feelings of comfort and security that many Americans derive from having large families. "This is going to shock a lot of people," he conceded, "but we have to get the discussion started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: Stay Single | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

From his 180-year-old house high on a bluff in Lyme Regis, Dorset, John Fowles can look down to a curving stone jetty called the Cobb. Two years ago, he had a vision of a woman in a long Victorian skirt standing there with her back to him. It was the basis for the opening scene of The French Lieutenant's Woman and, says Fowles, "the tiny seed from which the whole book started. It was just an image that came to me in a "hypnagogic state between 'waking and sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imminent Victorians | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...late meeting of 250 ?AC members in the student center around 2 a. m., support for militant action today appeared to be waning. Protestors decided to split up and canvass in area high schools and colleges to explain the NAC demands and bring people to a final march Saturday from Government Center to the Boston induction center...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: 200 NAC Protestors Stage Obstructive M. I. T. Sit-In | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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