Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...described how a cultural web of ritual, taboo, kinship and history formed the typical Samoan personality. Growing up is "so easy, so simple," she found, because "Samoa is a place where no one plays for very high stakes, suffers for his convictions or fights to the death. Caring is slight." The book became a bestseller and basic reading for introductory social-science courses; it is still in print. Though the work broke no theoretical ground, Margaret Mead's conclusion that the Samoan teen-ager was calm and free from trauma provided solid proof that "adolescence is not necessarily...
...inflation-a fact that was underscored last week by a Government survey predicting an increase in capital spending of nearly 14% in 1969, compared with only a 4% gain last year. To fight inflation, the Nixon Administration intends to extend the surtax, keep money tight and aim for a slight budget surplus-much the same policies that Lyndon Johnson pursued in his last days as President. Nixon will undoubtedly try to dispel the common belief that Republicans are irrevocably probusiness, especially since his overriding domestic goal is to "bring together" a nation that is already rent by too many divisions...
...have to bury our slight differences and score. We can. We have to tell the faculty that we just will not be chewed up by a competitive grading system--that our futures will not be determined by six day in June," Asher concluded...
...these "Allstars" in one group. But they work together beautifully, all springing from the same great tradition of Delta blues. And when Johnny Shines went into his "tribute to a friend, the late Robert Johnson," playing "standing' at the Crossroads" with his mellow slide guitar, and a slight tremble in his voice, the rest of the band came right together. And that was the blues--no longer a legend; very much alive...
...corollary lesson is that crime pays-or, to quote Mario Puzo quoting Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." When Puzo gets around to updating Balzac's ever so slight overstatement, he has the youngest and smartest son of the oldest and smartest New York Mafia boss tell his lank Yankee bride: "In my history course at Dartmouth we did some background on all the Presidents and they had fathers and grandfathers who were lucky they didn't get hanged...