Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admitting that their campaign slogan would undoubtedly produce a "blip-blip" on TV, Author Norman Mailer and Writer Jimmy Breslin formally announced their respective candidacies for New York City mayor and city council president. What's more, they were serious about it. "We are sentimental about the past," said Mailer. "We want New York to thrive again, to be a city famous for the charm, ferocity, elegance, strength, calm and racy character of its separate neighborhoods." The Mailer-Breslin plan is to detach the city from New York State and make it a city-state of its own, organized...
...becomes the youngest director of a major museum in the U.S. Scion of the rich Rhode Island Browns (his grandfather founded Brown University and his parents are both well-known collectors), the new director is also a Harvard man and latter-day student of Berenson's. During the past two years, he has been principally concerned with plans for the National Gallery's most ambitious new project: the $20 million Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, a sort of esthetic equivalent to the science-oriented School for Advanced Study at Princeton...
...strolling and kissing. Even in winter there are ways to beat the restrictions imposed by the chronic housing shortage. The usual way has been to borrow the flat of a friendly couple who are going to the theater or the ballet for an evening, but leisure inspires variations. This past winter one enterprising young man booked a first-class compartment for himself and his girl friend on the Red Arrow express to Leningrad. The trip was expensive, but it took all night, and after a day of sightseeing in Leningrad, there was another long night on the train before getting...
...basic article of faith. Their objective is to obstruct the patient's progress to an institution, and they can point to some conditional evidence of success. The annual commitment rate to state mental hospitals from San Francisco, for example, has dropped from 2,887 to 119 in the past four years-a decline in which the city's expanding complex of emergency-treatment centers was a major factor. Grady Memorial Hospital, which opened a crisis center in 1968, now treats 5,000 psychiatric emergencies a year. The hospital's 36-bed mental ward, which previously was inadequate...
...differences between white and black American culture go well beyond speech patterns. In a pioneering study called The Myth of the Negro Past (1941), the late Melville Herskovits, an anthropologist at Northwestern University, argued that many black cultural patterns are basically African in origin. Although his thesis was initially dismissed by the majority of sociologists and anthropologists-including most Negro experts-the Cultural Mafia agrees with Herskovits. Its members believe that they have discovered a number of behavioral parallels between native Africans and black Americans. One similarity is the typical way that many Negroes laugh: they cover their mouths, lower...