Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the impetus for liberalization comes from the Cabinet's younger ministers who are anxious to adjust the nation's anachronistic policies to those of the rest of Western Europe in order to cushion the shock when-and if-Spain wins associate membership in the Common Market...
...Impetus now comes from the opposite direction. Only 13% of Germany's working mothers hold their jobs out of economic necessity. Most of the rest are furiously engaged in the race to keep up with the Müllers. with second cars, appliances and travel. One thing leads to another: appliances make housework more of a bore; travel and entertainment stir interests far from the Küche. According to a recent study, four out of five formerly docile hausfraus consider their lot unhappy, and most of them because they are "fed up with housework." With the divorce rate...
...impetus is neither a desire to play Lady Bountiful nor a shortage of paying summer jobs, but a useful blend of altruism and self-interest. High school seniors yearn to report a substantial entry in that "Civic Work?" blank on college applications; collegians may want to put sociology lectures to practice. The Peace Corps is the model−but most of the jobs to be done are right at home. Says one delighted Boston mother, whose teen-age daughter is toiling in a hospital ward this summer: "She goes charging out of here in the morning like Florence Nightingale riding...
Stuart is a graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina and is working towards his M.A. at Harvard this summer. His poems have been published in the anthology "Southern Poetry Today", and in "Epos," "Impetus," Half-Moon," and Lyric...
Slurs & Accolades. It is a Society to which the Kennedys have given considerable impetus, although it was in the making well before Jack went to the White House. Rockbound in their huge old houses behind the iron gates, the Old Guard seldom went anywhere, never saw anybody but one another, and hardly ever worked except as trust officers for the family estate. In the New Society, the term self-made man is not a slur but an accolade, and the New Society is willing to accept anyone with the requisite qualifications...