Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth-control program became the province of Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, a spinster, a Christian, and a devoted disciple of Gandhi, who taught that the only proper method of birth control is continence. "Harnessing science to ward off nature," said Miss Kaur, "is fraught with tremendous risk for the moral fiber of the nation." Therefore, by Minister Kaur's order Health Ministry workers taught only the rhythm method. Women were given beads to keep track of "safe" days (green) and "baby" days (black). But some women refused to use the beads on the ground that in India only...
...borrowed freely from the U.S., it has also put new life into an old Latin American custom, the piropo, or street-corner compliment. "My compliments to your mother," the boys say. "If you want to kill me, I'll die." For a girl in a green dress, the proper piropo is "If you're like this green, what you'll be when you're ripe!" As for the phantasmagoric girl who is already ripe, the boys draw on their memories-of Italian movies, and say: "What a Pampanini...
...philistines, beyond the pale of true artistic production. The essence of the true art is its non-objectivity, in the intimacy between man and kobu. "In a kobu," comments the president," every man sees what he wants or needs to see. With us, there is no restricting canon of 'proper' taste or judgment...
...announced last week that his staff has already ordered revisions of 5,656 drawings, 25% involving the "reduction of feminine curves to more natural dimensions." Other changes: witchlike villains with wiry hair and fanglike teeth have been converted into subtler harpies who would not cause a stir at a proper tea party; knives have been pulled out of corpses, pools of blood mopped up, and "unsuitable" and "objectionable" ads have been thrown out. Sample "objectionable": bullwhips...
...many other movies about the birth of Christianity, this film has a hard struggle trying to dramatize religion. Faith is depicted as a kind of chance commodity: some have it, some haven't-and the have-nots can get it merely by leafing through the scenario to the proper page...