Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indeed, the gales of social criticism were already blowing before young Vincent Astor fully comprehended that he, at 20, was heir to one of the U.S.'s least popular traditions-fortune founded by great-great-grandfather out of fur trading with the Indians and Manhattan real estate; fortune battened down by grandfather and father upon acres of New York tenements bitterly known as "Astor Flats"; fortune tarnished when half the family moved to England because the U.S. was not "a fit country for gentlemen to live...
...their ways and reduce the ranks of illegitimate "pickneys" is the major concern of an articulate, honey-skinned feminist named Beth Jacobs. Born 41 years ago, and one of six children, she is now a member of the island's Legislative Council, the wife of a doctor popular among the island's U.S. tourists, and the mother of two. Beth Jacobs is first of all in favor of marriage; secondly, she proposes to cut the rate of illegitimate births by contraception. The ideals of Planned Parenthood, U.S.-style ("Every child a wanted child"), baffle many a Jamaican sire...
...Admiral's prescription for our time is perhaps the only possible: self denial, self discipline, and hard work, in school or out. To blame our schools for popular hedonism, complacency, chauvinism, or plain stupidity is dangerously simplistic. The underpaid, undertrained, and often underdeveloped minds which staff many of our classrooms make good scapegoats, but they are relatively helpless victims of the cultural tragedy which we are now enacting...
With the influx of 2000 girls, Hanover, N.H., temporarily loses its celibate atmosphere and begins its most strenuous attempt to live up to its fun-loving reputation. Contrary to popular rumor in the girls' school circuit, Dartmouth men are not exceptionally big drinkers or "wah-hoo-wah." Although the liquor flows from twelve noon till four a.m. (the administration prohibits drinking at any other time), Dartmouth men "can hold their liquor mighty well." Alcohol is a weekend staple...
...from the Wolfe papers, along another aisle, five massive editions of the Tibetan scipture, the Tripitaka, lie wrapped with yellow burlap covers. This great work is a sort of Tibetan wonder book, combining holy writ with popular ideas on political and natural science. On the outside of each volume in addition to the insciption in the inscrutable and original Tibetan, are a number of small swatches of brilliantly colored, oriental cloth, which carry some mystic meaning to the rare cognoscentus...