Word: parents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Opportunity (chairman: Richard Daley) is securely ballasted in favor of city hall. Last week, presiding over a banquet celebrating the first anniversary of his anti-poverty board, the mayor grandly ignored pickets from the Woodlawn Organization, a militant neighborhood action group, parading outside to protest its exclusion from the parent body. To charges that wardheelers dominate his program, Daley retorted: "What's wrong with the politician, if the politician is conducting his office in a proper manner...
...refer to the U.S. Historically, the metaphor is accurate enough, and Americans happily acknowledge their European inheritance of culture and law, myth and memory. Yet in recent decades, the filial relationship has been reversed. As happens in individual families, too, the offspring has taken over the role of parent. After World War II, it was America that gave Europe food, shelter, the sheer hope of survival. Through patterns of aid and alliance, the U.S. also tried to help banish Europe's ancient, tragic-and sometimes childish-quarrels...
...Vartan. Playing a yé-yé girl who won't say no, blonde Sylvie is a mildly accomplished comedienne with two oddly spaced front teeth that give her a look of elfin corruption. On the screen, despite a paltry script, she twists her diminutive curves into every parent's nightmare vision of a wayward, irresistible, aggressively precocious teen...
GENERATION. William Goodhart converts a Greenwich Village loft into a sparring ground for the Establishment and the hippie, the parent and the child. Henry Fonda, as a visiting father-in-law, fights the battle of the ages with his usual bemused charm...
GENERATION. William Goodhart converts a Greenwich Village loft into a sparring ground for the Establishment and the hip pie, the parent and the child. Henry Fon da, as a visiting father-in-law, fights the battle of the ages with his usual bemused charm...