Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acme of sophistication" in a white sun helmet, is now seen as a hopeless hick who can't get the hang of English or even much pidgin and is unable to make the cultural struggle into a girdle. She is about to be supplemented by a "parlor wife." Odili, a man of many resources, wants this luscious literate for himself, despite the "bride price" being negotiated for her back home in the village by his patron, the gallant and ever-jovial Chief Nanga. Meanwhile, he attends cultural events, not the least of which is a night of instant integration...
...abandon trolleys. A handful of enthusiasts saw a chance to take over 1½ miles of the Branford line. Today Branford ranks as the second largest trolley trove in the country, is stocked with 75 cars, ranging from a John Stephenson horsecar, vintage 1893, to a wicker-chaired private parlor car in mint condition...
...that matter, not everyone in Fulbright's own Arkansas cities of Little Rock and Hot Springs patronizes prostitutes either, though there is an abundance of whores, ranging from massage-parlor employees ($5) to $200-a-night hotel call girls. And at Little Rock Air Force Base, every airman so inclined knows that he has only to call FRANKLIN 4-2181, ask for "Rocket" or "Houston," and find out if "the ice is on." The price of ice starts at $15 a dish...
...Kinnard reluctantly accepted as the best among unhappy alternatives: the first brothel quarter built exclusively for American soldiers in Viet Nam. Half finished, An Khe Plaza, as the sign at the M.P. gatehouse declares, or "Disneyland," as the G.I.s call it, is a 25-acre sprawl of "boum-boum parlors" built of concrete blocks and surrounded by coils of concertina barbed wire. Each parlor consists of a bar with eight cubicles opening off the back. Eventually there will be 40 parlors, bearing such rubrics as Paradise, Caravelle, Golden Hind, Hill Billy, Washington and the Moderate Tearoom...
...existence, argues Oxford Theologian Ian Ramsey. "We are now sheltered from all the great crises of life. Birth is a kind of discontinuity between the prenatal and post-natal clinics, while death just takes somebody out of the community, possibly to the tune of prerecorded hymns at the funeral parlor." John Courtney Murray suggests that man has lost touch with the transcendent dimension in the transition from a rural agricultural society to an urbanized, technological world. The effect has been to veil man from what he calls natural symbols?the seasonal pattern of growth?that in the past reminded...