Word: seem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...younger than Scott, would project a more youthful and agreeable image of the Senate G.O.P. But electing the Tennessean, who only came to the Senate in 1967, would violate senatorial traditions of seniority. Some moderates were also fearful that elevating Baker, who has consistently voted with the Administration, would seem to add a cog to the Nixon-Thurmond "Southern strategy...
...agreeing with Malcolm Muggeridge that second-rate powers had "great fun." Britain's new devotion to fun produced Europe's most vigorous theater, practically a new age in popular music and a pop scene that has been emulated the world over. By contrast, the French seem hesitant, even fearful about tapping those resources of the imagination and intellect that once struck the rest of the world as being virtually inexhaustible. They have discovered, for the time being at least, that among the emptiest mantles of grandeur left by De Gaulle was his promise of a cultural renaissance...
...less tangible but far more profound crisis is the lack of a commanding dramatist with a compelling vision. Half of today's plays seem to be written in some dusty attic of the past and the other half in some apocalyptic junkyard of the future. The shock fads of homosexual, lesbian and sado-masochistic themes, the vogue of nudity and participatory theater may well continue, but they cannot mask the lack of substance. They are frames without pictures, devices without a purposeful direction. This is a theater that is severely pinched for both means and ends, but at least...
BARBITURATES are used by doctors as sleeping pills and tranquilizers. They are taken by kids only out of naivete or in the absence of anything better, since their high is minimal: after an initial flash of relaxation, in which tensions seem to disappear, they produce physical and mental lassitude and can cause death. Barbiturates also create heavy physical dependency...
Such efforts cannot work without the presence of deeper social values, whether they concern smoking, liquor or drugs. To help schools encourage such values, new drug curriculums are slowly replacing the venerable and largely ineffective assembly scare lecture. The programs that seem to have helped most are seminars where kids and their parents can talk out the enticements and dangers of drug use?often with the blunt help of ex-addicts barely older than the kids in school. The meetings expose underlying tensions very rapidly. Wayne Wilson, a psychologist who has helped former addicts set up education programs in several...