Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as of the Jews. They have often seemed readier for adversity than for good fortune. But in whatever condition, they have been a tremendous altruistic force in the U.S.-and in a pinch, they have even forced themselves to adjust to palaces and private parlor cars...
...effective is the network that passengers traveling its popular routes must make reservations well in advance. Other travelers may fret over dusty parlor cars and schedule lapses; TEE passengers can only find fault with luxuries. Complained a Frenchman who rode the Parsifal recently from Paris to Hamburg: "These German waitresses look so stern one doesn't dare pinch their bottoms...
...Radicals have no power base. Their number, while indeterminate, is obviously small. Still, they are a presence and a voice-partly because of the sheer energy of their commitment, which demands not just parlor protest but physical inconvenience as expressed in the sit-in, the demonstration, the march. They speak for the beleaguered individual in an impersonal society-whether Negro sharecropper, white welfare recipient, or campus dropout. Above all, they speak, or shout, against the Viet Nam war. Says Sociologist Daniel Bell: "At best, the New Left is all heart. At worst, it is no mind." They changed the temper...
Though not so spectacular, the "Unwed Mother" game by Henry Beard and Mark Stiumpf, takes some excusable cracks at Pill-wheels and has the added virtue of being slightly dirty. The list of thumb-nail sketches for parlor games at the start of the issue makes good fun of Parker Bros. jargon and is an amusing reductio ad absurdum of games in general. After the third or fourth game-article, the technique of reducing a real-life problem to playing-board size starts to wear a little thin, but the pieces are worth skimming for the occasional laugh...
Physical confinement can turn a man loose on himself. Things around him don't change, so his imagination may set off on its own for variety. In Massachusetts state prisons, a part of a convict's day is marked off as free time -- the pool room and TV parlor are opened, and a guard watches as the prisoners relax. Some prisoners, however, go off in these free moments to paint in prison studios...