Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Columbia). The name this group chose for themselves may sound a bit square and their topics-sex, drugs and what's wrong with the U.S. -are hardly novel. Yet the gut level lyrics and third stream rock accompaniment are inventive and challenging. The ring modulator and Durrott Synthesizer, electronic instruments, are used as if they were invented for this group...
...calls up boys and ignores girls. Seeking to quash a draft-evasion indictment against James St. Clair, a 19-year-old Fordham University undergraduate and antiwar activist, Fine startled Federal Judge Dudley Bonsai in New York City by arguing that the present law makes "an invidious discrimination based upon sex...
...champions of equal rights for women cavil. In 1964, granddaughters of the original suffragettes managed to insert a clause into the Civil Rights Act forbidding job discrimination based on sex. But draftable females were less than ecstatic. "Now that would put real meaning into Uncle Sam's saying 'I Want You,' " noted Manhattan Model Mason Susanne Boyd, 23. "The old lecher...
Still, however oldfashioned, the conventions are quintessential television-history happening. Or at least for brief moments. The networks' challenge was to remain compelling in the hours between the moments. That challenge was considerable. What other show, after all, could run for several hours with a single set, no sex, a predictable plot, and its principal characters all offstage...
...party girls at a hotel pool, Art got off his best line: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the cabana." ABC scheduled nightly debates between the self-styled "Odd Couple," Conservative Editor William Buckley Jr. and Novelist Gore Vidal, whose latest book is the sex farce, Myra Breckinridge. The confrontation was diverting as an exhibition of personal antagonism, but the political issues were almost entirely lost in the scuffle. A sample exchange...