Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless all this belief in a machine-age utopia is predicated on the existence of the proper relationships between people. A long jolting brilliant piece called "Dialectics of Liberation" explores the meaning of such transcendent consciousness and its possibility...
Oddly enough, some of the more proper Bostonians have bent over backward to try to help the flower children. Warned in advance of the invasion, Mayor Kevin H. White formed a committee of businessmen, clerics, resident hips, police and psychologists to resolve the hippies' hang...
Women, to be sure, can also be something of a financial drainees- pecially if they have a perfectionist turn of mind, like my friend Mrs. Guinness, who feels that "for a fur coat to look proper, it must be completely new." The quest for youth and beauty is the female way of whiling away time and money slimming expeditions to Main Chance or the Greenhouse, animal-cell injections by Niehans in Switzerland, face liftings by Rees or Converse in New York, and assorted blood aerations, breast shapings, or skin peelings. These cosmetic Sayings leave a woman pretty unsightly...
...pronounced 'shooter' and that 'parson,' 'person,' and 'pierce' were homophones? How many of you are familiar with words like kersey, farborough, caudle, inkle, thrasenical, and placket? You do know 'half' and 'capon,' but not in their meaning of 'wife' and 'love-letter.' And there is a parade of obscure proper names, Elizabethan slang, malapropisms, and sentences in both good and bad Latin. All of this makes the play an absolutely fascinating goldmine for the student of language in his den, but now it is hardly conducive to excitement on the stage...
...history read like one long protest march in which Jefferson, Thoreau and Staughton Lynd are fraternity brothers linked arm in arm. Lynd writes as a scholar as well as a proselyter, and his slim volume valuably documents the American tradition of dissent. But it must be read with the proper skepticism due any partisan credo...