Word: porches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other demonstrators said that a tenant had complained to Hunneman about some missing planks in her back porch. Several days later, her porch and eight other porches were ripped off the building by repair...
...young man, Dennis, sits on the front porch in a floorlength white robe, with blond hair flowing past his shoulders. "Why are you wearing a dress?" I ask. "I'm a witch," he answers. "In fact, you're just in time to see one of my ceremonies. Come on upstairs." I follow. "Don't worry, I'm not a black witch, I'm a white witch. Most of us are. Our powers diminish when we use them selfishly." We come into a room draped with silk cloths. A dozen people?housewives, girls, young men?are sitting in a circle...
Though he underestimated the expressive element in photography, his eye would discover patterns in the world around him, composed by telephone poles or sharecroppers sitting on a porch. These compositions are most interesting to the modern viewer. His documentary honesty strengthens his more creative ventures with a spontancous naturalism. His scenes are not arranged like a still life...
...accepted notion that boys and girls should ignore each other until puberty and then concentrate heavily on dating can also distort parental attitudes. If a mother catches a little boy playing doctor with a little girl under the porch and tells him he has been bad, says Gebhard, she may be subtly telling him that sex with girls is bad: "Anything that discourages heterosexuality encourages homosexuality." If an uptight parent or teacher catches an impressionable adolescent boy in sexual experiments with other boys and leaps to the conclusion that he is a homosexual, the scoldings he gets may make...
...Talk to me now? Are you crazy? This is the middle of the rendezvous!" The spy knew that one was true, because he could hear Walter Cronkite sputtering in the man's living room. And because girls playing Monopoly on their front porch had abandoned their game in a hurry when their mother yelled that Mike Collins' voice had come...