Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more selective about his targets. In Tucson to give a poetry reading at the University of Arizona, Ginsberg held a typically empurpled news conference; then he began berating Arizona Republic Correspondent Bob Thomas about a story that had appeared in the Tucson Daily Citizen criticizing the poet for his self-proclaimed sexual aberrations. When Thomas finally walked away, the guru followed and shouted a string of obscenities at him. Mother, whose day is celebrated this week, seemed to have a prominent place in the epithets. Whereupon Thomas wheeled and clouted Ginsberg twice on his shrub-bordered mouth. "Ah, those were...
...Competition. If not war, then Realpolitik may hold the key to the future of manned space flight-and future prosperity of NASA itself. Sputnik spawned Apollo, and Soviet competition can be expected to spur other U.S. space ventures. Several Russians have recently emerged from a sealed chamber with self-contained life-support systems, after a year-the duration of a manned voyage to Mars. Moreover, NASA officials claim that Soviet scientists may soon unveil a rocket big enough to fly directly from earth to the moon, land and take off again. Such brute-force spacemanship might convince the U.S. that...
...Self-Sacrifice. Taking up more substantial issues, the conference sanctioned birth control in special hardship cases, but refused otherwise to raise the lowly status of women in the Islamic world. Moslem husbands may still divest themselves of an unwanted wife by simply repeating "I divorce thee" three times. The conference also took a surprisingly moderate stand on the Middle East. It refused to consider the demand of the El Fatah guerrillas for a jihad (holy war) against Israel - and pointedly explained that the word jihad also meant sacrificing one's self for the good of mankind...
...that he had made of the ruins of Hadleigh castle, which stood near the mouth of the Thames. In the completed painting, while the ruined castle becomes a monument to Constable's grief, the scudding clouds, the glistening rocks and the sparkling leaves display a fervent commitment to self-renewing life...
...cultivated behavior," which includes not only good manners and respect for learning but observance of the elementary rules of hygiene and sanitation as well. "Free time does not amount to idleness," warns Sociologist G. S. Petrosian. "It is the time devoted to study, the raising of [occupational] qualifications, self-education and self-development." As Pravda puts it with typical elephantine grace, "To care about the cultural recreation of the people is, above all, to ensure the conditions making it possible for the working people to spend their free time in such a way as to raise their general cultural...