Word: loafed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most frabjous funnyman in town is Claes Oldenburg, a prematurely balding troll of 38. Among his what's-its on display at the Sidney Janis Gallery are: 1) a 6-ft.-long stuffed-and-sewn canvas loaf of raisin bread, with six detachable slices and 42 removable raisins; 2) a 12-ft.-tall, droopy white canvas "ghost fan" (its mate, a 12-ft.-tall black fan, wilts in mid-air beneath the space capsules at the top of Expo 67's U.S. pavilion); 3) platters bearing real Jell-O and real marzipan molds of the artist...
...East bloc. The monthly average wage has risen 10% in the past six years, to $158, and there is more to buy on the shelves of the state-owned food and department stores than anyone can remember. Prices for basics are low: bread costs only 12? per loaf, potatoes 2? per lb., a haircut 20?. But anything beyond the basic necessities of life is more expensive in East Germany than anywhere in Western Europe. Coffee is $7.95 per lb., a blouse nearly $10, a TV set $490. Housing rents for $11 to $20 a month for a four-room apartment...
Every school, of course, has its share of youths who loaf their way to a diploma. But in a speech to a conference of the American Chemical Society in Manhattan last week, King contended that the serious student puts in a 17-hour day of classwork, school activities and homework. "No one else in the population works that many hours day after day," he insisted. After four years of this, "Mr. Good Student is no longer Mr. Good Student-he is a tired old man." He has also "been robbed of several years when he should have had time...
...Brazilian coast city of 1,000,000 population, has 40,000 registered prostitutes. Colombia boasts more than 700 varieties of orchids. Venezuela, on the other hand, has 32 kinds of eagles. In the Argentine, parents boost their offsprings' grades by bribing the schoolteacher; the price of a loaf of bread in Chile has gone up 300% in five years. In Peru, 7,266 landlords own 82.6% of the land, and in Colombia, where 300,000 have died during 20 years of La Viblencia-a kind of unextinguishable political civil war-the children of well-to-do families ride...
...They are decadent, degenerate, and morally corrupt. Many children of rich families play truant the whole day long and spend their time in clubs drinking, merry-making, and indulging in orgies of debauchery. Some of them even operate clubs themselves so that they can loaf all day long. A Harvard University student went as far as openly bringing in a group of prostitutes and running a brothel inside the school. To girl students the Harvard campus means a prohibited area to be dreaded. Unescorted girls dare not walk on it. It has been the scene of robberies, molestation...