Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel so sorry for this younger generation," says its author. "They've got this silly guilt. They've been told that they're not contributing to the world if they relax into their normal ocean of domesticity. If you're not a great artist or writer, you shouldn't be made to feel guilty by having to be somebody besides a housewife. These girls are in school, and they're the queens of the world. Then they get married, and they have problems, and they say it's not fair. Self-pity...
...Master or the Dean does not face the predicament of wanting to offer a convenient place to study or relax to the Cliffie who is too tired to return to Radcliffe from the Square in the middle of the afternoon and who must come back to the Square for her tutorial before dinner...
Obviously a great deal more pushing is required. It would be a disastrous disservice to the Negro cause to conclude that everyone can now relax and that the present rate of advance is necessarily enough. The Southern Negro is still far from enjoying all the rights the law grants him, but he already knows that he wants and needs more than the law can give. He wants not only equality of opportunity, but social, economic and, in a sense, psychological equality. The Southern Negro family's median yearly income is still only $2,520, compared to the white Southerner...
...just relax--we're going to make America dis-integrate...
...nine months to accommodate, Sexagenarian Marlene Dietrich agreed to a two-week stand in Johannesburg, her first South African appearance. Among other whims, such as having every last speck of dust hand-whisked from the stage before curtain time, Marlene insisted on two separate dressing rooms: one to "relax" in, one to dress in, so to speak...