Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test the relationship between status and stature, Wilson introduced a stranger from Britain by a different academic rank to five groups of Sydney students. Later, after the visitor had left, he asked each group to estimate the man's height. As plain "Mr. England, a student from Cambridge," the stranger's height averaged out to be 5 ft. 9.8 in. As "Mr. England, demonstrator in psychology from Cambridge," he grew to 5 ft. 10.39 in. Up in rank to "Mr. England, lecturer in psychology from Cambridge," he reached 5 ft. 10.86 in. As the imposing "Dr. England, senior...
...putdowns and pratfalls. But a serious, forthright approach to sexual inversion was slow to appear. When Hollywood first filmed Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour in 1929, fear of censorship forced Director William Wyler to substitute an innocent boy-meets-girl plot for the original lesbian relationship. When Billy Wilder made The Lost Weekend in 1945, he deleted all the book's references to the hero's homosexual self-doubts. The screen adaptation of Crossfire (1947) transformed the victim from a homosexual into...
...American film makers were still shy about dealing with the subject too openly: Richard Brooks eliminated most of the overt homosexual overtones from the characters of Dick and Perry in In Cold Blood. Screen Writers Robert Benton and David Newman abandoned their original notion of Clyde Barrow's relationship with C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde...
Later, at a ceremony in the White House at which Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin exchanged papers ratifying the U.S.-Russian consular agreement, Johnson expressed hope that nothing will "prevent us from exploring every avenue to a more peaceful relationship and a more cooperative world." The new accord calls for separate negotiations on the opening of consular offices outside Moscow and Washington and constitutes the first bilateral agreement between the two nations since the U.S. granted diplomatic recognition to Russia...
...defense, Stanton's telegram pointed out that social scientists have not established that there is a "causal relationship between the fictional portrayal of violence in the mass media and any increase of actual violence in American life." But that may be beside the point. What seems to disturb the majority of the nation's 180 million viewers is not the conclusions of sociologists, but the fact that the horrors of war, assassinations and riots are real enough; why bludgeon TV audiences with variations on violence...