Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whose coauthor, Reed Smoot, inspired Ogden Nash's 1930 poem "Invocation": Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh root-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverent occiput . . . Smite, Smoot, Be rugged and rough, Smut if smitten Is front-page stuff...
While The Little Foxes is still stage-sturdy, its angle of vision is the leftism of the '30s, since it assumes that the root of all evil is economic. A 1939 audience would have understood the play as an attack on predatory capitalist morality. A 1967 audience is more likely to relish it as an indictment of greed, hate, and the Just for power at anytime, in any place...
...root of the problem is education. Many of the immigrants are highly educated and competent. Some are not. And that is enough to give rise to prejudice. Also, the immigrants, though competent, may have very little knowledge of the British way of life. Here Indian immigrants, with a hundred years of British rule behind them, have a very definite advantage over the West Indians and Pakistanis. (These three along with Cypriots, form the most important group of immigrants). It is in the school-room that these disadvantages are most glaring. Some Cambridge elementary school teachers find themselves trying to instruct...
Whatever the Freudian significance of hair and its style fluctuations, it seems probable that the root causes of the new trend are neither deep nor esoteric. Any understanding of it must begin by making a distinction between the hippie and the respectable non-hippie with longish hair...