Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart of Eden's anomie lie vast technological changes in Western culture that have steadily lengthened childhood and sharply diminished communication between generations. In primitive cultures, boys become men immediately upon surviving harsh rites of passage. In agrarian societies, a hard-working farmer's son rapidly becomes a certified adult. Until recently, puberty occurred at about 14 or 15, marriage two or three years later. The word "teenager" was inconceivable for such 17-year-old adults as Joan of Arc or Surveyor George Washington. In the 18th century, many upper-class Englishmen impressively taught their eldest sons...
Boycott & Blockade. The protesters recently organized marches through the campus, boycotted classes and blockaded the administration building for 48 hours. They scattered food and shattered dishes in a cafeteria riot, threatened a "lie-in" on the football field to scuttle a homecoming game. Jones, who has headed Grambling since 1936, asked for National Guard protection, and Governor John McKeithen dispatched 600 soldiers to the campus. When Jones expelled 39 of the demonstrators, nearly 1,000 other students quit in sympathy but returned a few days later...
...National Institutes of Health also decided in 1963 that the eventual remedy for incurable heart disease must lie in a complete artificial heart, and set 1972 as the tentative target date for getting one to work. Last year N.I.H. concluded that this was unrealistic at this time, and dumped much of the $8,700,000 available into research grants for the perfection of "half-hearts"-devices to assist the left ventricle, or take over its work entirely for a time...
...museum world, some secrets are out even before they can be classified as secret, others lie quietly covered up for years. Last week New York's Metropolitan Museum gave a rousing demonstration of both truisms and, in the process, announced it was both richer by a handsome new acquisition and poorer by declaring one of its prized Greek treasures to be a fake...
...Walters has one of the top ten all-round public collections in the country, but nobody knows for sure. The museum has shown so many superlative examples of work from the classical era through the Renaissance that scholars are positive that many works by as yet unidentified masters lie hidden in the Walters' chockful storerooms...