Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems is that the end toward which all modern societies, whatever their ideology, seem to be moving is the beehive model, in which the total system perfects itself as the individual is steadily dwarfed. All modern societies, capitalist or Communist, are moving toward ever larger and more inclusive systems of organization, toward ever greater dominance of the system's purposes over individual purposes...
...unreasonable hypothesis that genetic factors are strongly implicated in the average Negro-white intelligence difference." The difference, according to him, is found in the highest form of intelligence: the ability to reason abstractly and to solve problems. In what he calls associative learning, or mastering by rote, ghetto children seem to do as well as anyone else...
Spindly Siren. Today, of course, Diahann is the star of her own highly successful TV series, Julia. Black faces abound in ads and TV commercials; TV advertisers seem to have made it a rule of thumb that if three models in an ad are white, the fourth must be black. The breakthrough in fashion modeling has been more remarkable and, at the same time, less dutiful. Three years ago, a spindly siren from Detroit named Donyale Luna stalked onto the fashion scene and became an overnight success: In one whirlwind year she posed for Harper's Bazaar, Paris Match...
...state prison, 60 Minutes has drawn most of its items from the world of pop sociology. Lighthearted bits have been aired on the ski boom, shoplifting and the esthetics of ugliness. One piece on Rock Singer Janis Joplin might better have been on the Ed Sullivan Show. Seemingly for lack of imagination, the CBS magazine has built many of its more serious stories around interviewing celebrities. Too often, television inquisitors seem content with the most flatulent answers, though in one feisty exchange with Student Leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Mike Wallace seemed more intent on discrediting Cohn-Bendit's radical...
...three years. First they hit American Airlines, one of the industry's strongest moneymakers. After ten months of negotiations and a 21-day strike, American capitulated last month and gave the mechanics a three-year contract with a 25.5% increase, or 8.5% a year. The settlement might not seem excessive when compared with the 7.5% median annual wage increase last year, but it was clearly inflationary...