Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...masculine affinity "bonding": the forging of strong emo tional ties between men that have noth ing to do with women. He contends that these male bonds go back to the origins of human society, owe much to man's animal genesis and are probably genetically determined. They must first have been formed, Tiger speculates, when man turned hunter - an event that occurred anywhere from 2,000,000 to 26 million years ago and that forever after relegated man's female companion to the responsibilities of the hearth...
...hypothesis, Sociologist Tiger leaps nimbly-perhaps too nimbly -to some contemporary conclusions. The hunter is still in command; only the hunt has changed. "When a community deals with its most vital problems," Tiger writes, "when statements of internal and external importance are made, when-particularly in warfare -decisive actions must be taken, at these times, females do not participate. The public forum is a male forum...
...Though the U.S. standard of living is still the highest ever achieved, the value of the nation's currency is dwindling alarmingly. It has gone down by almost two-thirds in the past 30 years. A 1958 dollar is worth only 790 today, which means that a man must earn 26% more after taxes to buy the same goods. This year the erosion in purchasing power has sharply accelerated. A dollar received as recently as January is worth only 960 now, and at the current rate of price increases will shrink to about 920 by Christmas...
...rates have climbed to their highest levels in a century, spreading turmoil in the financial markets and discomfort in corporate board rooms. Businessmen gloomily foresee a slow year for profits. Consumers, despite their affluence, feel financially strapped and vexed to the point of outrage at the soaring prices they must pay for both the necessities and the luxuries of life. President Nixon says that an attack on inflation is his number one domestic priority. His economists, led by Chairman Paul McCracken of the Council of Economic Advisers, are guiding a delicate effort to control inflation gradually and avoid bringing...
Entertainment is a must item for the Munsons. "When you're still young, and when you have two babies, this is one place where you don't want to cut down-if only for sanity's sake," says Mrs. Munson. She and her husband have substituted a local movie for their former weekly trip into Chicago, where they used to see plays. They hold one dinner party a week, even though Mrs. Munson complains that it costs an "absolute minimum...