Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to test people's response to a concrete situation involving sexual morality, the Harris interviewers put this hypothetical question; "Suppose you had a 20-year-old daughter who came home from college and told you that she had fallen in love with a young man and had sexual relations with him but isn't sure she wants to marry him. What would you do?" Only 2% would take the drastic action of disowning her. A huge majority, 90%, would talk it over with her at length and urge her to discontinue the sexual activity; 61% would "tell...
Then the interviewers repeated the question, switching it to cover a 20-yearold son who is in love and sleeping with a girl. The responses were nearly identical, which indicates that most American parents are now willing to concede girls as much sexual freedom as boys. "The impact of the pill has been decisive indeed," Harris notes. He adds: "There is little doubt that America has come a long way toward both recognizing sexual practices in something less than forbidden terms and in acknowledging the growing liberality of sex behavior, especially among the young...
...Love It or Leave It. The mayor found his salvation in Angelenos' apprehensions over racial and radical unrest. Like other cities, Los Angeles has witnessed campus turmoil down to the high school level. Mexican-Americans have been asserting their rights with increasing militance. Two extremist black organizations, US and the Panthers, have been feuding with each other as well as with whites. The promising community relations program promoted by former Police Chief Thomas Reddin has all but disintegrated recently, stimulating new tensions between police and the ghettos...
...audiences: "Funny, you don't look like black militants and white radicals." The line was no match for the Yorty advertisement showing a rather menacing picture of Bradley and asking the question: "Will your family be safe?" In white suburban neighborhoods, a new paste-up slogan appeared: AMERICA -LOVE IT OR LEAVE...
...public sonnets vary in mood and tone. Some are simple, even simpleminded, like one devoted to Senator Eugene McCarthy ("I love you so". . .). Some labor through metaphorical complexities. Stalin, for instance, begins botanically, switches to a feline metaphor ("What shot him clawing up the trunk of power?") and finally reaches a fine physiological line, "his intimates dying like the spider-bridegroom?/ The large stomach could only chew success...