Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humbert's sad obsession with twelve-year-old Dolores Haze went off in the U.S. of the late '50s like a shot in church. At first, U.S. publishers were afraid to touch it. Vera was afraid Nabokov might lose his job at Cornell if they did. When it finally came out, reviewers, not yet used to such material in "serious literature," flew into rages of indignation and feigned boredom. New York Times Critic Orville Prescott, in particular, earned a gargoyle's niche in literary history by exclaiming, "Dull, dull, dull." But Lolita in due course was recognized as the masterpiece...
Died. Mrs. John Foster Dulles, 77, widow of the late Secretary of State, whose devotion to her husband's career and acceptance of public life ("I never know whom my husband will bring to breakfast, lunch or dinner, but it's sure to be someone interesting") exemplified the best characteristics of a Washington wife; in Washington...
...average 3% annually for the whole 20th century but rose to 4.5% during the '60s, will continue to grow by 4.5% a year during the '70s. One reason will be an unusually large rise in the labor force, the result of high birth rates in the late 1940s and 1950s. The labor force has been increasing by an average 1.2% a year, but in the 1970s it will jump 1.7% annually. In addition, continued investment in research and new plants should maintain productivity gains at the historic rate of 2.8% a year. Altogether, the gross national product...
Though the end contains a ritual slaughter, it comes too late to save the project. The western is essentially a naive art. When it tries for sophistication it collapses into self-mockery, like a cowpoke dressed by Cardin...
When the Dovells created the Bristol Stomp in the late fifties, they probably never anticipated the rapidity with which it was to vanish from the popular scene. Likewise, those who started the freshman intramural program at Harvard were probably of the opinion that it would last forever and ever. But if the participation continues to grow at its present negative rate, soon there will be no organized program of intramurals for first-year students...