Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there now such an outbreak of kissing as a social gesture? According to Sociologist Murray Davis, of the University of California at San Diego, "Increased kissing is part of the general inflation of intimate signals. We kiss people we used to hug, hug people we used to shake hands with, and shake hands with people we used to nod to." Not to kiss or hug means one is "not relating." "Isolated individualism is out." says Davis. "Today separations are not allowed. Everyone is expected to kiss everyone else." The human-potential movement has occasionally made a travesty of E.M. Forster...
...Symphony Orchestra in his composition If Ever Man Were Loved by Wife, which he dedicated to Rosalynn. James Dickey recited a new poem, describing Carter as a mythic hero drawing strength from a walk in the Plains countryside on a summer's night. Sample lines: "Lord, let me shake/ With purpose. Wild hope can always spring/ From tended strength. Everything is in that...
Later Jimmy and Rosalynn dropped in at the post-concert dinner for the performers and made political groupies out of many superstars of the entertainment world. "Oh, I want so much to shake his hand," sighed Bette Davis, patting her hand over her heart. Hugged by Carter, she left beaming...
...egalitarianism, a felonious breach of etiquette or a simple gaffe? Most probably a gaffe, and as such it typified the confusion of what may turn out to be the most chaotic Inaugural since Andy Jackson's admirers tracked mud all over the White House in a frenzy to shake his hand...
...states -notably West Germany and the Low Countries-are doing quite well, while others-notably Britain and Italy-are "broke and half-broke," as they like to put it here. The leaders of the latter countries will stretch their hands in your direction, anticipating something firmer than a friendly shake...