Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year the Administration barred dates from traveling on the Band bus to away football games, reportedly because a proper Bostonian, feminine variety, was alarmed that her daughter had spend the night traveling with unruly bands-men. Early this fall the Band was warned about its jibes at the Radcliffe House system, apparently because some stuffy Corporation member thought them in poor taste...
Members of the Reorganization Committee would probably protest violently to such a deduction. We have all sorts of ideas about how to get the Council moving in new directions, they will tell you, but now isn't the proper time. Let's wait for the new Council...
...language had special forms to be spoken by men and women; for a man to use a female word when talking to other men was extremely bad manners. So Ishi masculinized all English words that sounded female to him. "Hat" became "hatna" and "sheep" became "sheepna," both of them proper enough words for any well-bred male Yahi...
...Earl of Snowdon, 31, elegant ex-commoner and onetime court photographer: their first child, a son; in Clarence House, Queen Mother Elizabeth's London residence. The 6-lb. 4-oz. child automatically received his father's secondary title, Viscount Linley, but while the Royal Family searched for proper Christian names, delighted London newspapers referred to him simply as "the Jones boy.'' He is fifth in line for the British throne, after Queen Elizabeth's three children and his mother-exactly the same position occupied by Princess Victoria in 1819, 18 years before she became queen...
...primacy of Gartner's article raises the larger question of the proper function of Current as the magazine of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Club. According to editor Michael Novak, in his opening editorial: "No practical issue is so important to the Current at the present time as the speedy assumption by Negroes of full and equal dignity as citizens of America." Novak's central concern seems curiously irrelevant to those of us who hoped to find in Current discussion of Catholicism and its concerns, contemporary and historical, at Harvard and elsewhere. Of course discrimination against Negroes is an immense problem...