Word: parently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Myths endure, but their purveyors do not. Last week, after a century and a half of continuous publication, the Post came to an end. Readership had remained high in recent years, but costs rose higher and advertising revenues went down. Largely because of the Post's problems, the parent Curtis Publishing Co. had lost $62 million since 1961. The Post figured to cut its deficit from $5,000,000 last year to $3,000,000 in 1969, but hopes of regaining advertisers remained dim. The Curtis board of directors, bowing to the inevitable, gathered in New York City...
...have been trying to suggest that there are important historical and ideological sources of the rigidity that Jay Cantor pointed to in the CRIMSON as both parent and offspring of the politics of confrontation. But there are still possibilities open to all of us, in which we need not give up an ounce of conviction, and might possibly be able to live together, however, temporarily, however uneasily. For one thing, liberals have not explored their marvelously traditional device for dealing with radicalism, the method now known as co-optation. For instance, the New Deal (including its latest incarnation, however degraded...
Styron's hero is an unwed celibate, his one and only sexual experience being with another black man. He has a Moynihan-style one-parent family. His mother is much contented with her life as a house slave. He leads a life of loneliness and frustration during his childhood, thoroughly cut off from other children his age. He receives all of his education from whites...
...graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a former editor in chief of the North western University Law Review, who later became law clerk to U.S. Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Now, at 46, he is vice president and general counsel of Marcor Inc., the $2.3 billion parent of Montgomery Ward and the Container Corporation of America. On top of that, he is the Mafia-fighting president of Chicago's crime commission...
...community role in education. With his approval, the Boston School Committee and the teacher's union examined the education clauses, and objected to the aggressive wording of the crucial passage, which established a committee to study possible "decentralization" of area schools. Atkins changed the sentence to read "parent involvement...