Word: norms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...image of man seen in a distorting fun-house mirror, and from Paris to Tokyo, from Buenos Aires to Manhattan, the small, unconventional stages of the world are reflecting it. In these plays, the bizarre is the norm. There is a woman with three noses, a family whose every member is named Bobby Watson. Sometimes the absurdity is purely verbal: "The small of my back is too big, Doctor." More often it is physical, macabre and symbolic. Two men try to measure a corridor only to find that their measuring tapes are blank. A couple have a growing corpse...
Psychologist Samuel Z. Klausner asserted last night that anti-Russian sentiment in the U.S. has become a "social norm," similar in many ways to the hatred of Jews in Nazi Germany...
...Norm Shepard said last night that the JV is a "well-balanced team. We pass well, and we run well." Asked to predict the probable outcome of the game, Shepard called it a "toss...
...That's just the way it is. It looks as if we're going to have to teach the Russians a lesson.' Four of the five men at Dar's service station are leaving, including Owner Darwin Hilgendorf. Just last month, Norman Osero had opened Norm's Stereo and TV Shop. Last week he had a new sign...
...Major league baseball attendance was down 5.6% in 1961, but other statistics were impressive. Detroit's Norm Cash (.361) took the American League batting championship. Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente (.351) won the National League crown. Top American League pitcher was New York's Whitey Ford (25-4); big winners in the National League were Cincinnati's Joey Jay and Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, with 21 victories each...