Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vastness of the gap between the envisioned tomorrow, and the actual today, Brazilians sometimes blame nature: the rugged mountain ranges that block the seaboard from the interior, the tropical heat that saps men's energy in the coastal cities, including Rio. Racists (rare but not unknown in tolerant Brazil) put the blame on Brazil's racial potpourri. (It was 62% white, 27% brown and 11% black by the 1950 census, but a majority of Brazilian whites have at least a trace of Indian or Negro blood.) Often Brazilians blame the nation's Portuguese colonial masters. Complains...
Before World War II, this operation for sterilization was rare indeed, except under state auspices for sterilization of the insane. It has now become much commoner. There has been no detectable increase in New England or the Southeast, but some big cities of the middle Atlantic seaboard report a moderate increase. In some smaller Midwestern cities and the border states, vasectomy has become a fad, with doctors themselves setting the trend and joking about having been "clipped." In one prairie city of 250,000, two urologists who share an office do an annual average of 50 vasectomies apiece. Around...
...come alive to the heart-moving sight of "White Wavys" (snow geese) settling into range or the whisper of duck wings in the reeds just before the birds take off. Last week, as wintering waterfowl beat their way south, hunting seasons were opening along the ancient flyways: the Atlantic seaboard, the Pacific and mountain states, down the Mississippi Valley and south across the Great Plains. Everywhere the birds stopped, they matched wits with well-equipped adversaries. Guns belched bird shot from cramped duckboats and drafty duckblinds, as hunters tried every trick in the book to bring home the legal...
...original pressure for this bill came primarily from the eastern seaboard colleges. One story claims that the movement never would have started if, in the summer of 1951, one of the bright young men from an Eastern college--faced with unemployment for the summer--had not hit upon a new approach to the problem. After being turned down a half dozen times by employers who feared he would leave them before the summer was over lest he top his $600 limit, he abandoned his role as "College Student Seeking Summer Employment...
...individual may attain his freedom in contemporary U.S. society, Riesman has had to examine that society anew. The result is a "construction," a way of looking at the U.S. which is more presently fruitful than older conceptions such as the class struggle or the frontier v. the seaboard. At the very least, Riesman answers the anguished city editor who cried: "What we need around this place is a new set of cliches." No mantled prophet with the last word or the definitive system, Riesman describes his notion of character as "heuristic"-and that is the word for Riesman. It means...