Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inevitable, you see, Papa, has finally overtaken the fiesta nacional. You and Sidney Franklin and the other gringos were always so mesmerized by the mystique of blood and sand that you ignored what Spaniards understood: above all else, bullfighting is box office. For a time in Spain's new and vigorous consumer society, the box office was busier than ever. With 20 million foreign tourists a year and television beaming corridas to as many as 15 million more people (instead of the mere 23,663 that can shoehorn into the Plaza Monumental), the bullfights have become a $25 million...
...replaced by the scent of perfume," complains one critic. Women drawn by television occupy more and more corrida seats; so do camera-lugging tourists. Neither group complains about increases in ticket prices of as much as 80%. Neither knows the difference between the "comfortable" Galache breed of bulls they see and the brave but seldom-seen breeds like Pablo Romeros, Tulio Vazquez and the legendary Miuras, who have killed seven matadors in modern times, including Manolete...
...estimated 30% of the students at Northwestern University were undecided on a career. This year a survey showed that the undecideds amount to 54%. A Harvard senior expressed the prevailing mood: "If I'm alive and out of,jail when I'm 30, we'll see what happens." Even if he manages to come to a decision then, the chances are that he will not stay put. It is estimated that more than half the present June graduates will switch jobs at least once in the first five years out of college, a mobility without precedent...
...coed Woodward Court. "The mere fact that you can talk to a guy any time you want to means you're going to be better adjusted socially." Adds Stanford Senior Pat McMahon: "I think it encourages a more holistic relationship. It is very important that men and women see each other as more than bodies...
...many campuses where coed living is accepted, students are pressing for one final freedom: the right to visit rooms with no restrictions. Peter Wilson, 25, a U.C.L.A. residence adviser at coed Earle Hedrick Hall, insists that they want open visitation rights, "not because they want to see girls 24 hours a day but because they want to be trusted to use their own judgment." But at San Diego State College, the men and women who share Zura Hall voted against any visiting in rooms. "It was not as much a question of morality as it was one of inconvenience," says...