Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main failure of the novel is that the central characters are interesting neither as individual persons, nor as case studies of their generation. Not special enough for the former role nor representative enough for the latter, they're just dull. One really can't get himself to give a jolly hurrah about. Mary's search for happiness or Betsy's search for unhappiness, and after reading along for a while, it soon becomes plain how a bored psychiatrist feels...
...night's sleep won't ease, and that is President Johnson's medicare proposals. Last week 24,000 members of the A.M.A. swarmed into Manhattan for their annual convention. The question of what to do about medicare-or, more precisely, how to oppose it-was the main issue facing the A.M.A.'s governing body. There was very little it could do that would be effective, since the House of Representatives has already passed a medicare bill, and the Senate Finance Committee has just approved a similar draft...
...also. Sea Island is geared to outdoor living?golf and swimming particularly, and an old-fashioned barbecue is a week-end attraction. The atmosphere is more like that of a club than an ordinary resort since most of the guests return more than once. Social life centers around the main building, the Cloister, an expansive three-story building that is done in Spanish red-tile fashion. Though there is a band for dancing in the evenings, spirited nightlife is almost nonexistent. First-time guests at Sea Island usually take a room at the Cloister (summer rates...
Lady Allen's answer is the "adventure playground." Instead of flat asphalt, the lot ideally should have hills, grass and puddles. Its main features are: 1) a central pavilion where young children could keep out of the rain during the day and teen-agers could hold meetings at night, and 2) enough lumber, bricks, rope, pipes, hammers and nails to keep the kids busy. With a minimum of supervision, they would build tree houses, hideaways, swings-or just mud castles-and cook their own meals over an outdoor fire...
...JAPAN. What expansion-minded businessmen regard as a recession would be a boom anywhere else: the economy is still growing at about 7% a year. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato calls the Japanese slowdown "an adjustive stage after years of phenomenal growth," predicts an upsurge soon. Main problem: too many companies are deep in debt, vulnerable to slight dips in sales...