Word: less
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the country supposedly quiet, the Washington Post could turn the attention of its editorial page to matters of less moment. Or so it thought. After it ran an editorial supporting the anti-bra movement among women and even suggesting that "men blatantly exploit women as consumers" by foisting off such an unnecessary item of apparel, the Post got a chiding letter from an unexpected source. Wrote Elder Statesman Dean Acheson: "What traitor or fifth columnist on your staff embittered the war between the sexes by blaming men for the bra? Even as a boy looking at pictures of Boadicea...
...more than plumbers,"*the legal spokesman, Herman Gray, asserts. "The community has no right to expect the artists to support the Met. It should pay adequate salaries or go out of business." In the view of many New Yorkers, Met salaries are not exactly inadequate. Met musicians make less than the $15,000 minimum paid players at the New York Philharmonic-though Bing's offered increase would at least put their pay in line with that...
Toothbrush Holder. Truman Capote couldn't care less. He has carried a handbag for years. "I don't see how people get along without some sort of little satchel," he says. "Mine's really a medical bag," he explains. "When people ask me what's in it I say I'm a pusher." What does he carry in it, then? "I keep my money in it. And a book, in case I have to wait for someone. And the papers I'm working on. And four or five pairs of glasses. And a toothbrush...
...less tangible but far more profound crisis is the lack of a commanding dramatist with a compelling vision. Half of today's plays seem to be written in some dusty attic of the past and the other half in some apocalyptic junkyard of the future. The shock fads of homosexual, lesbian and sado-masochistic themes, the vogue of nudity and participatory theater may well continue, but they cannot mask the lack of substance. They are frames without pictures, devices without a purposeful direction. This is a theater that is severely pinched for both means and ends, but at least...
There are vast differences in the effects of pop drugs. New research makes it clear that marijuana is "softer" and less perilous than the others, although for some people it does hold genuine psychological dangers. Pop drugs have provoked a defiance of the law unprecedented since Prohibition. The drug scene has stirred intense debate among scientists, doctors and politicians...