Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Esquire magazine ran a full-page color portrait of the Three Wise Men seen as contemporaries: they turned out to be Evangelist Billy Graham, Playboy Hugh Hefner and the psychedelic professor, Timothy Leary. Cosmopolitan advised readers suffering from "holiday neurosis" to consult a psychiatrist for Christmas. The lead piece in the Reader's Digest concerned a housewife so exhausted by her Christmas chores that she finally broke down alongside her dishwasher: "Tears filled my eyes. Suddenly, it all seemed too much: the dirty dishes, the too-tight schedule. Christmas didn't seem worth...
...judge from such disgruntled commentary, the holiday season is not what it used to be in U.S. magazines. Good cheer has given way to gloom; the champagne has gone flat. Santa Claus has been replaced by a somber psychoanalyst with a bag full of cures for year-end anxieties. It would almost seem that publication schedules for the monthlies had forced year-end issues to be made up too far in advance; the festive mood may have been unattainable in plans made in July. To be sure, many magazines carried the familiar religious pictures and sentimental sermons. Yet McCall...
...complex under the Protestant ethic, when gifts were bestowed as a reward or incentive for good behavior. St. Nick was long depicted as a scrawny saint who Carried presents in one hand and birch rods in the other. But the art of giving grows most difficult in this permanent holiday age of affluence, when, in the words of Poet Howard Nemerov, Santa Claus himself is an "overstuffed confidence man who climbs at night down chimneys, into dreams, with this world's goods...
...White Paper blackened everybody's holiday mood. Unions were upset because the government's policy for the next six months calls for generally continuing the freeze on wages. Businessmen were mad because theoretically the clampdown continues on prices as well, and the authoritative magazine Management Today has forecast that profits in 1967 will drop 12½%. Corporate chiefs cannot understand how the government expects them to increase investments while profits and consumer demand are weakening. And economists are none too happy because the policy for next year has so many discriminatory exceptions that it threatens to frustrate...
...warm air domed over the region the day before Thanksgiving, trapping the dirty air beneath it. Westerly winds, which normally whisk away 'the 17.6 million lbs. of pollutants that New York City alone spews into the air each day, were nowhere to be found. By Thanksgiving, despite the holiday inactivity, New York's pollution reached five times its normal level of noxious carbon monoxide from cars, soot and fly ash from chimneys and potentially deadly sulphur dioxide from soft fuel oil and coal fires...