Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't particularly bother me, now that they no longer sell subscriptions, that the Lampoon doesn't publish the eight times a year it pretends to promise. I think that people should write only what they're really up for. And the continued existence of such a thing as the Lampoon in rank, undeserved decadence doesn't bother me either...
...British are preparing to remove from the nation's statute books most of what remains of the great charter. Under a proposed statute repeal bill, some 200 British laws that are "no longer of practical utility" are likely to be scrapped soon by Parliament, including one "prohibiting common night walkers in the universities." More significant, all but two of the remaining twelve provisions of Magna Carta are also to be struck from the books...
Though the Staatsoper has regained much of its prewar luster, it is no longer the unquestioned queen of the world's opera houses. Acoustically, the theater itself is a marvel. Yet even Vienna's chauvinistic critics will concede that artistic standards at New York's Met and Milan's La Scala are at least as high. More exciting days, though, may be ahead. Next year Bernstein and the Viennese stage director Otto Schenk will collaborate on a new production of Fidelio. Also scheduled are expensively mounted revivals of Verdi's Macbeth, Gluck's Iphig...
...women were less than 20 years old when they had their first child, close to a third had no other children. Nearly half the mothers were not on welfare at the time the survey was made; only one-third had been on public assistance for a year or longer. And as for blatant immorality, the statistical evidence, although not clear-cut, points the other way: three-fourths of those who had more children were made pregnant by the man who fathered their first child or the man they married later, and only 4% of the girls became pregnant...
...convalescence of the ailing aged. For an oldster who has been in a hospital at least three days, Medicare will pay nearly all costs for 100 days in an approved nursing home. In most states Medicaid picks up the bills for the low-income aged who need still longer stays...