Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Well, it's done through research," said Miss Prag vaguely. "I really don't know. I only get the results of it. But they don't decide, Oh, here's a spot we haven't tackled yet. Let's make something and then go and scare everyone into it. They had researched the market and they had found out there were many, many women with this .... I tell you frankly I don't identify with the concern." Miss Prag began to laugh. "I don't mean as far as I'm concerned ... But then I don't have hairy arms...
...Bernard Siegel, former chairman of the A.B. A.'s Committee on the Federal Judiciary. Siegel is deeply upset by Haynsworth's nomination, believing that it violates the principles that he tried to establish on the judiciary committee. Were he still chairman of the group, Siegel has let it be known, he would probably have testified against the nomination in Senate hearings...
Most Asian societies take a love-and-let-love attitude toward sex, as long as it is kept private. The trouble is that younger Asians, anxious to keep up with the latest fads flowing from Manhattan and London, have gone public. India's debate, for example, was set off when a government censorship commission recommended that "if in telling a story it is relevant to depict a passionate kiss or a nude figure," moviemakers should do so. After all, the commission noted, Indian directors never hesitate to feature bump-and-grind girly dances so provocative that they "may almost...
LEAN, sleek and impersonal as a hood ornament on a Pierce Arrow, Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space is far better known than its maker. It made headlines in 1926 when the U.S. Customs Bureau refused to let it in the country duty-free, claiming that it was not art but mere metal. In the comic-opera court proceedings that followed, a group of American art lovers won a modest but crucial ruling: that to be art, a work by a recognized sculptor need not bear a striking resemblance to a natural object. Whether or not the decision affected...
...best example of the dichotomy may have been the "psyche" period before the Penn meet. Penn, as they had let everyone know, was the rising cross-country power in the East. Their freshman team swept Harvard's last fall, and veteran George Lokken was returning...