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Word: scandalous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Shaw laid to rust when he attacked the theater of genteel piffle. Those bygone plays were Victorian clutched-handkerchief-and-smelling-salts operas. With more calculation than wit, Playwright Dyne drapes sex in bombazine, drops gossip in pear-shaped tones, dredges up his plot from an actual 1885 scandal, and clearly depends on fresh memories of the Profumo affair to titillate his audience and breathe secondhand life into his play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Mothball Melodrama | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Since its inception in August 1964, the many-faceted, $2.5 billion anti-poverty program directed by Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity has experienced a predictable pattern of controversy, red tape and scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: More Boon Than Doggle | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...induce a mild psychedelic experience. He never lets you forget that he holds an LsD., a "degree" which he says takes most of a lifetime to acquire. He did some of the work towards this degree at Harvard, while a Lecturer on Clinical Psychology. During the notorious "drug scandal" of 1963 he was dismissed from his post--ostensibly for spending too much time away from Cambridge...

Author: By Stephen Bello, | Title: Timothy Leary | 10/13/1965 | See Source »

...arrests and the new "lodging" statute brought the matter to Radcliffe's attention. "There's been no scandal," one president told an off-campus House. "The college only wants to remind you to be discreet and careful. Radcliffe asumes that its students are responsible our permissive rules prove that. But girls sometimes forget there exist statutes determined by people less liberal than the college administration." The head resident in, one of the co-operative Houses last night speculated at a Cliffie arrested under the "fornication" statute could expect legal aid from the college but would find Radcliffe "anxious to hush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffies Warned of Arrest Inder 'Fornication' Laws | 9/29/1965 | See Source »

...interview with the CRIMSON, Dr. Graham B. Blaine Jr. '40, newly appointed Chief of Psychiatry (whose article on collegiate mores had touched off the 1963 "Harvard sex scandal" in the press), said that "we at the Health Services take a fairly casual attitude toward pot. We know that some Harvard students are using marijuana. We know they get it from townies. But it isn't harmful, and there's no evidence to show it's even as addictive as cigarettes." While he warned of the possibility that smoking marijuana could lead to involvement with more serious drugs, such as heroin...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: UHS: An All - But - Clean Bill of Health | 9/22/1965 | See Source »

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