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Word: relic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the century ends, says Dr. Hammer, the voting booth may be a relic of the past. Present-day computers could be programmed to count and analyze ballots cast from any number of remote points anywhere in the country, and to keep a single running, up-to-the-second record of any election. In the future, any home with a telephone will be within dialing reach of election computers; voters, says Dr. Hammer, will be able to call in their ballots without leaving their homes. As an optimistic scientist, he sees the problems of identification of voters as an engineering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: may 10, 1968 | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...hobo simply the American loser, a blot on a successful nation's personnel record? Or is he the last of the rugged individualists, a folk-hero relic of the frontier, a living rebuke to contemporary organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road Tramp Blues | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...regularly; last week The Importance of Being Earnest opened with Dame Flora Robson, and Hay Fever opens this week. Producers have even harked back to such antiques as The Bells, a Victorian melodrama in which Sir Henry Irving made his reputation, and John Galsworthy's hoary Edwardian relic, Justice, a preachy treatise on crime and punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In London: End of a Golden Age? | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Easy Liaisons. Marriage has never enjoyed much status in Communist dogma. Marxist theory stigmatized the institution as a bourgeois relic whose sinister purpose was the orderly transfer of property from a father to his son. The Soviets scythed the religious significance out of marriage entirely, and in the post-Revolution years they advocated easy liaisons. Many couples married themselves by "solemn agreements," while others, who had tired of their mates, merely called the district party chief and announced that they considered themselves divorced. Tiring came quickly in societies where privacy is almost impossible, diversions drab, and the outlook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: Matrimonial Wreckage | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

Billy was the darling of the denizens of the crash pad at Provo House, a tarnished brick relic of bygone opulence hard by Denver's Capitol Hill area. Provo House, named for a group of Dutch student rowdies by a Californian who calls himself "The Strider," proffered free mattresses and sometimes free food to hippie drifters, dropouts and runaways. The flower children lavished their love on Billy, making sure that the cheerful blond two-year-old always got a generous portion of their meager meals. Only when forced to take a bath would Billy blow his cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colorado: Death of a Flower Baby | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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