Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Batman would have attracted nobody but preschoolers were it not for ABC's ingenious promotion efforts. Skywriters emblazoned BATMAN is COMING in the heavens above the Rose Bowl game. Every hour on the hour, television announcements bleated the imminent arrival of the Caped Crusader. Hordes of people who recalled Bob Kane's comicbook creation as well as the 1943 movie serial (TIME, Nov. 26) pushed their toddlers out of the way to get a good look at the TV set. Among other things, they saw a mesomorph in cape and cowl expostulate: "My own parents were murdered...
...more fashionable device than fornication." But the only society, apart from some primitive ones, that distinctly approved homosexual love was 5th century Greece. "We must blush for Greece," said the enlightened Voltaire. Even this much publicized example has often been overinterpreted. The homosexuality that Socrates and Plato knew rose only with the development of a slave culture and the downgrading of women to the level of uneducated domestics. This resulted in a romantic cult of the beautiful young boy-but not to the exclusion of heterosexual relations -much as the restriction of women to purdah led to a high incidence...
...that, the IMF reported last week that international monetary reserves shrank during the first three quarters of last year from $68.9 billion to $68.88 billion while global exports rose 5%. In the long run, the expansion of prosperity-giving world trade requires growth, not shrinkage of those reserves, which are composed of gold, dollars, British pounds, and drawing rights...
Owing to some genetic magic, the Adamses never produced black sheep, though there were times when the family anxiously expected Charles Francis Jr. to baa. Instead of settling down to the law after he left Harvard, 26-year-old Charles went dashing off to the Civil War, rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general. Since no other Adams had ever been a soldier, Charles Francis Sr., Lincoln's Minister to the Court of St. James's, concluded that there was a defect in his son's character. More over, on his return from the war, Charles...
...wide, ventilated by two small barred embrasures and designed to accommodate three or four disciplinary cases at a time. Normally, the cell was stinking hot, but when 145 men and one woman were pounded into it by rifle butts, the air became noxious with excremental exhalations, and the temperature rose so rapidly that within an hour at least 50 men had roasted to death in the infernal oven. They died where they stood, the dead and the living pressed so closely together that they could not fall down. At 6 a.m., when the heavy door was opened, only...