Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would our nation be grand if signs weren't there to show the proper way to everyone in this land...
...screech of more than 50 jets a day at the nearby Nice airport discouraged prospective tenants. The Blue Bird's builder sued Air France, the major noisemaker. At takeoff, the government-controlled airline did not think it was in for much turbulence. Air France simply argued that the proper party to sue was the Nice chamber of commerce, which runs the airport. "We just land where we are told," said the airline. What's more, the builder had taken a deliberate risk: nestled the Blue Bird only 80 yards from the airport runway. And, finally, Air France invoked...
...second point is that the old Peking rulers were the custodians and propagators of a true teaching, the Confucian classical doctrines of social order, an orthodoxy which told every man how to behave in his proper place and kept the social pyramid intact with the emperor on top. The emperor was himself the high priest of a cult of social order. The three main bonds of the Confucian social order were the filial piety of children to their superior parents, the admirable devotion of wives to their superior husbands, the loyalty of scholar officials to their superior the emperor. This...
...about to become parents in name only. Their immediate life plan consists of divorce for themselves, adoption for their unborn child. In intellectual hock to his psychoanalyst, Beau has convinced Barbara that he and she are emotionally unready for parenthood. A hotter squarehead prevails. Hiram Sherman is a proper-minded homosexual, more censorious than Cato the Elder. He has raised Beau since the lad was a 15-year-old pickup in a gay bar, and he is disgusted with Beau's flibbertigibbet irresponsibility. Sherman's performance is an up tick in a dramatic bear market, but he doesn...
...pursuit of his quasars. Despite the challenges of his job, though, he takes pains never to miss dinner at home. "It is," says Corrie Schmidt, "the only time he really has with the children." At bedtime, Anne, 5, Maryke, 7, and Elizabeth, 9, all stand prim and proper in line, awaiting their ritual kus (Dutch for kiss) from Daddy...