Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wont to do: by a reductio ad absurdiun, such as war; or by technological-administrative interventions, such as forced migration, compulsory sterilization, and stealthy pills, which invariably encroach on human dignity and freedom and destroy the few good and beautiful things that have not yet vanished in the rummage sale of ancient cultures." Your reviewer finds my views "disconcerting." Quoting only part of the above sentence, he infers that I am opposed to "oral contraceptives." It should be obvious from the complete sentence that I am opposed to population control by government flat. In my book, I insisted upon...
...DATING GAME proves that when big ideas die, they go on television. Its spirit is borrowed from Sex and the Single Girl, which enjoyed a huge sale at book counters and furnished the title for a moneymaking movie. For TV, the screen has become a gigantic keyhole through which viewers are invited to watch a series of career-type girls snare a date for the night. Out of girl-sight, three bachelors-at least one a celebrity-parry questions from the husband hunters. Samples: "How would you go about telling your date that she had a dress that was maybe...
...existence of a responsible elite rather like a composite English gentleman-to whom he addresses a prose poem of admiration. He deplores oral contraceptives as "stealthy pills which encroach on human dignity and destroy the few good and beautiful things that have not yet vanished in the rummage sale of ancient cultures." He classifies the "passion for ugliness and disfigurement" in modern art as a "danger far greater than depopulation by war." Liberals would call him a reactionary. Yet his views might more accurately be called the politics of nostalgia...
Today this sort of thinking seems almost as remote in the church as the sale of indulgences- and this is perhaps the strongest single measure of the council's achievements. The essentials of Catholic dogma stand, of course, as does Rome's claim of universality. What has changed drastically is atmosphere and attitudes. "Before, the church looked like an immense and immovable colossus, the city set on a hill, the stable bulwark against the revolutionary change," says the English Benedictine abbot, Dom Christopher Butler. "Now it has become a people on the march - or at least a people...
...French families by last week had put down $100 deposits for the 510 homes planned for the site. No wonder. Though Levitt's tile-roofed masonry houses cost about 25% more than they would in the U.S., their prices run about 25% below those of other homes for sale around Paris. They also come equipped with such Gallic rarities as closets, kitchen ranges and refrigerators. "My only problem," says Levitt, "is producing enough of them...