Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack on sex education began last fall with the publication of an angry little pamphlet called "Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex?" This diatribe was produced by the Christian Crusade of Tulsa, a right-wing, anti-Communist organization headed by Fundamentalist Preacher Billy James Hargis. The pamphlet focused on the Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S., a non-profit health organization that advises schools on sex-education courses. The council's director, Dr. Mary S. Calderone, a nationally recognized authority on sex education, was accused of "tossing God aside . . . to teach American...
...this point they find that society's attitude is ambivalent at best. As Zunin's assistant, Dr. Norman Barr, sums it up, "people want widows to marry, but not to date. They want them to be normal, proper women and go through the whole ritual again, but they're not supposed to have sex or pet or experience feelings meanwhile." As one woman admits, "I haven't really dealt with sex yet, but I have learned one thing. When you fight your feelings, that's when you're in trouble." So far, four...
...educational program to bring the facts to every American-especially our young people." But in light of the generation gap in attitudes toward drugs, preachments from elders are likely to have little effect upon youth. On one issue, however, the President might have been speaking for his professional critics. "Proper evaluation and solution of the drug problem has been severely handicapped by a dearth of scientific information-and the prevalence of ignorance and misinformation." To gain the necessary new knowledge, the President said he had directed the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to expand its research efforts. That...
...think they've about made up their minds that this is not a proper way to attack this tax reform problem," he said. "I would say that we were much happier with the situation at the moment than we thought we'd be a few months...
...perhaps too given to sometimes enthusiastic "mugging," but, in this particular play, the role demands more of a sophisticated veneer. Vera should display more of her country education; and, with such sophistication, would come a heightened sense of tragedy. As Beliaev, problem. While physically right, he never manages the proper diction, he tends to run his words together, occasionally even slurring a g, and rarely being anything more than Russia's answer to the Graduate...