Word: samoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking to a reasonably square audience in Boston, opinion-crammed Anthropologist Margaret (Coming of Age in Samoa) Mead, 57, turned her withering gaze on the beatniks, did her high-level best to define one: "A person who can't tolerate the meaninglessness of the low level of goodness, and just because it is both low level and good casts his artistic rebellions in bizarre and often misunderstood forms...
...foreseeable present." Usually, Rockefeller invests for the long pull; he expects investments to take ten years, or even 20, to pay off. Some never do. He has lost heavily on a company to build steel prefab houses (buyers did not buy) and another to tin tuna in Samoa (the fish did not bite...
...bomb was detonated a few minutes before midnight. Out of the blackness came a fireball that grew to eleven miles in width in less than half a second and could be seen in Hawaii, 700 miles to the northeast. Its multicolored aurora was observed 3,000 miles away in Samoa. Some nights later a similar device, called Orange, was fired from 20 miles...
There is a strong scent of social science in Venice West, and Lipton relates that all beatniks possess paperback editions of Margaret Mead. Love among the far out is casual and kaleidosexual, but just as among the savages of Samoa, there is a code. Said one beard, explaining why he rejected a girl's advances: "At the time, I was going with my wife." Beatniks prefer not to work, and when forced to, try to find employment suitable to their talents -such as deodorant testing for cosmetics firms. Shoplifting is only a stopgap...
...flora. Last year he tied himself under a canoe, inspected coral reefs off the Colombian coast of South America while an Indian paddled. This week he is filming near Mexico's Coronado Islands. Soon he will scout the waters off Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti-as well as Samoa, where some World War I German cruisers are rumored to lie photogenically scuttled...