Word: naming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the redistributions, counters call out the name of the candidate to whom each ballot will go before they place it in that candidate's pile. "VUH-LEW-CHI," the cry comes. The pencils of a dozen candidates and watchers crowded around make another mark next to Al's name on the sheets where they're tallying the redistribution. "We're getting plenty but maybe you could use some more votes. We'd slip a few extra ones in for you-but there's witnesses," A Vellucci backer jokes with another candidate...
...would probably insist that Take Me Along, this fall's Agassiz musical, is as American as apple pie. The show has all the credentials: a fourth-of-July setting, young lovers making a marriage pact under a full New England moon, parades, red-white-and-blue razzmatazz, you name it. But despite all that, don't be tricked: Take Me Along is as American as Jack Daniels booze-and all the better...
...good and evil. The Magus was both a love and adventure tale and an erudite venture into occult philosophy. Richer and more accomplished than either. The French Lieutenant's Woman seems destined to be a bestseller. It is the kind of work that helps give success a good name...
...bills legalizing birth control for married women were defeated in the Massachusetts legislature. The organization subsequently abandoned attempts to change the law but decided to use the right of free speech to educate people about the importance of family planning. In 1945 it changed its name to the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts...
...PEOPLE are talking about the Underground these days. It seems that once you've put a name to something, you have the power to understand it and to dissolve its strength into a variety of solutions ready to receive it. So it goes for the Underground. For the sociologists, it's a "subculture" with all sorts of appendages like new values and relevant commentaries. Hollywood and "Seventeen" magazine parade the "now-generation" and we get scene after slick page of how to be with whatever it is. Evidently, the Underground has made it: shunted off into its own little strata...