Word: normalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Holiday Inn in Tupelo, Miss., there are no towels. But there is a fly swatter with a sign on its handle that reads FOR EMERGENCY USE ONLY. A visitor in Tupelo gets told again and again, "This town could be the model for all other Southern towns." On normal Saturday mornings, the main street fills up peaceably with shoppers, black and white, from all over Lee County, plus a sprinkling of reverent tourists looking for Elvis Presley's birthplace...
...without Proposition 13, it would have gone to $7,000. Last year, she says, "we stopped going out, we did no entertaining and bought no clothes. We can't take a vacation. We can't lead a normal life." Says Mrs. Rosner: "The more money they spend on schools, the worse the schools...
...1960s HEW'S National Institute of Mental Health developed community mental health centers to help alleviate overcrowding in state mental hospitals. The Federal Government assumed that patients would lead more normal lives in a community setting and thus have a better chance of making a recovery, but just the opposite seems to have happened. Thousands of them have been placed by states in rundown housing, where they are unable to care for themselves and get no follow-up treatment. Certain areas have become saturated with these patients, who are often resented and feared by their neighbors. After releasing the results...
...income families in particular, the programs of HEW and its complementary state agencies help make life normal, if not exactly comfortable. The Palmers are a hypothetical, but typical low-income family in an urban setting that is receiving its legal share of HEW's substantial offerings. Paul Palmer, 45, and his wife, Jane, 40, live in Boston with their four children. In addition, Jane's mother and Paul's father are part of the family...
...male dorms are a more intense experience," Duffy adds. "For guys, it makes things more normal to have women around and it diffuses the pressure. My freshman year, Straus people weren't inhibited from running naked through the halls during a water fight. The Straus Rape and Pillage Society, a group made up of Straus freshmen who are notorious for 'boisterous activities,' is a group whose very nature is contrary to code living," says Duffy...