Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anthropology involves plenty of theory, most of it dealing with data on specific peoples and culture areas. Although this data is not always as pedestrian as kinship charts and lists of archaeological eras would indications it seldom titillates like quaint sexual customs and recipes for shrinking heads...
...Saints. The friend was Giorgio La Pira, known as "the Saint" to his admirers, who credit even his garments with healing powers. Saint or quaint (and a law professor at the University of Florence), he came by both reputations as mayor of Florence in the 1950s when, trying as a Christian Democratic politician to beat the Communists at their own social-welfare game, he was largesse to a fault. La Pira lived alone in a bare room above a clinic and gave away most of his salary. He was equally openhanded with the Florentine treasury, which ultimately cost...
...classic university campus is a grouping of quaint Gothic or red brick Georgian buildings adrift on a rolling meadow of greensward. But the exploding college population of the U.S. demands less casual and rustic solutions. In the Chicago metropolitan area alone, there are 150,000 college students. By 1980, estimates the University of Illinois, there will be 568,000 questing applicants. To meet this need, the university desperately needed a new campus, one that would be big, modern and accessible to city dwellers...
...Playroom is a morbid, two-hour, sadistic drip-tease. The drips are a revolting quintet of teen-age boys and girls who call themselves "the Filthy Five," and hang out in a surrealistically appointed turret room of a quaint Manhattan apartment building. These kids are not remotely real, but they have most of the commercially fashionable maladjustments from homosexuality to reefer-dragging, though Playwright Mary Drayton permits one youngster to be merely obese...
...Happy Pappies of Handshoe Holler" and Handshoe Hollow Holiness Church have more alliteration than facts. At least five Handshoes have attended Alice Lloyd College, and all have gone on to become leaders in the mountains. We know our area is economically depressed, but we question if it is altogether quaint to prefer our beautiful hills to the slums and polluted air of cities. Perhaps our quaintness lies in our interest in perpetuating the real human values that our so-called civilization so often helps to destroy...