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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incident took place last month after Patrick Eady, 32, a social-studies teacher at Lamphere, invited two college-age youths who are mem bers of a local left-wing group called the White Panthers to address his students. Their talk was freely sprinkled with the provocative verb (or noun, or adjective, depending on how it is used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obscenity: The English Lesson | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

MAGAZINES First Person Singular Many editors have lately decided that magazine prose is too impersonal - that in a rather impersonal world, readers yearn for human voices and the pro noun "I." The result is a revival of personal journalism, typified in the current issues of Harper's and the Atlantic, each of which is almost entirely devoted to the work of one writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: First Person Singular | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...full of crap as I am." When hecklers mustered the temerity to shout "Publicity hound!" at him, Mailer managed to pronounce flawlessly his all-purpose noun, verb and expletive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A SHAKY START | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...Rotations of Azimuths. Sassow says he recently removed a set of air-raid instructions from World War II. Also included in this category is The Making of Tanganyika, which must mean the classifier eitiher took the wrong meaning of the verb or thought "Tanganyika" to be a personal noun...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Harvard Hides Its Dirty Books | 10/11/1967 | See Source »

...term derives from the pre-World War II jitterbug adjective "hep": to be "with it"; hep became "hip" (in noun form, "hipster") during the bebop and beatnik era of the 1950s, then fell into disuse, to be revived with the onslaught of psychedelia. *A 14th century English troubadourian vision, the Land of Cockaigne was inhabited by precooked "larks well-trained and very couth who cometh down to man his mouth." The larks were eaten by hooded monks, who prayed through psychedelic church windows that "turn themselves to crystal bright." A new U.S. postage stamp of Thoreau, designed by Painter Leonard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Hippies | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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